Community Over Chaos: An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics

by James A. Mackin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308601
• ISBN13: 9780817308605
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"