Dismissing a thinker’s substance is itself a kind of authorial death, which is deadly.

Evidence

Reading Guénon is like dealing with a diamond in the rough. Yet, to knowingly dismiss the substance of his thought is to assign oneself to the status of Foucault’s “dead author.” The author’s death, however, is not as innocuous as common death. If anything, authorial death is deadly. In one rather strong sense, the next chapter represents a sustained argument to demonstrate the truth of this proposition. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 332

Categorization

• XREF: Plays on Foucault’s ‘death of the author’ against itself — connects to any poststructuralist reading practice.
• QUESTION: What exactly makes authorial death ‘deadly’ — the next chapter evidently argues this, worth tracing.