Book authorship is ultimately a solitary act of individual responsibility.

Evidence

Every author acknowledges what I am about to write, because it is true: In the end, one faces the page in solitude. Anything in this book that falls short of the trust invested in me is my responsibility alone. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1672

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A scholarly book’s meaning can exceed and supersede its author’s control; A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility; An author’s absorbed influences differ from their own original philosophy

Broader Connections

• A thinker must be studied in works published under their own responsibility #corroborates (0.78)
• A scholarly book’s meaning can exceed and supersede its author’s control #complicates (0.75)
• An author’s absorbed influences differ from their own original philosophy #qualifies (0.72)