TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackin,James A.
TI  - Community over chaos: an ecological perspective on communication ethics 
T2  - Studies in rhetoric and communication
SN  - 0585209847
AV  - P94 .M23 1997eb
U1  - 174 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Communication
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Business Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index; Acknowledgments; 1. Our Postmodern Ethical Quandary; 2. The Pragmatic Alternative; 3. From the Archaic to the Ecological; 4. The Cardinal Virtues of the Communicative Ecosystem; 5. Ethics in Interpersonal Communication; 6. Organizational Ecology; 7. The Politics of Representation; 8. Retrospect and Prospect; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community. As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics. This theoretical pessimism is not merely an academic problem. The general public is becoming more and more disillusioned about
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