ABSTRACT
This book brings attention to the communicative process of editing as a dialogic experience that is attentive to the voice of the Other and underlines an ethical turn for the editing process. The metaphor of engaging the trace of the Other marks the significance of the meeting of the voices as editors and authors beyond a habitual, technical process, calling for awareness of ethical responsibility and stewardship. Reading and receiving the voice/trace of the Other and offering feedback toward assisting the text to find a voice without turning it to the voice of the editor is an essential, yet undertheorized, part of the communicative practice of editing. Utilizing the theoretical and philosophical frameworks of a diverse group of leading scholars and philosophers, including Martin Buber, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Umberto Eco, George Bataille, Paul Freire, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ronald C. Arnett, Walter Ong, and Kenneth Burke, contributors to this volume explore the editing process as connected to communication ethics that calls for discernment of what matters—what is valuable that calls for protection and promotion in the context of one’s work and community.
