Objectivity, communication, and the foundation of understanding
By: Bruce Wayne McKinzie.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lanham, [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Journalism -- Objectivity; Journalistic ethics; Journalism -- Philosophy
Description: "If objectivity in observation and communication is impossible, why does it persist as a significant world view? In "Objectivity, Communication, and the Foundation of Understanding", Bruce Wayne McKinzie interrogates lay and scholarly arguments to answer this question and finds that objectivism endures because of practical necessity. Objectivism and related presumptions form a backdrop for understandings that appear to be indispensable in everyday living. McKinzie explores and attempts to reconcile relativism and absolutism and in doing so, searches for common ground between the hermeneutic world of unending interpretation and the world of concrete meanings that are evidently necessitated by the exigencies of day-to-day life. The findings of the study also suggest a theory that unites human understanding and human communication."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.