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Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche
Bibliography: pages 112-120.
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| author | Molteno, Donald Barkly Leatham |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15972 Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche Molteno, Donald Barkly Leatham Everingham, Geoff Accounting Bibliography: pages 112-120. This thesis argues that Accounting can never hope to be a value-free communicative medium grounded in and reflecting an external and knowable reality. Friedrich Nietzsche showed that we can only grasp the "real world" by means of useful fictions conditioned by our own perspective on the world. Any attempt to describe the world will always be distorted by the various contingent social, economic and political circumstances which influence our perspectives. Nietzsche's views on language are referred to, in seeking to demonstrate the inability of any language to communicate without communicating preconceived notions about reality. The thesis explores the assumptions upon which the mainstream perspective of accounting has based its world-view and attempts to show its limitations, both as a theory of Accounting and as a method of research, and shows the ideological bias inherent in it. Alternatives are suggested to replace or complement those of the mainstream in an attempt to create an awareness of the fact that the mainstream's way of seeing the world can never be privileged over other ways. 2015-12-28T06:05:04Z 2015-12-28T06:05:04Z 1991 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15972 eng application/pdf College of Accounting Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
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| title | Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche |
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