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Varieties of Postmodernism as Moments in Ethics Action-Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Richard P. Nielsen
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Abstract

Through an international case study, this paper illustrates how a conversation method was used effectively to address a cross-cultural ethics problem. The method included as moments in one continuous process three different dimensions of postmodernism—Gadamer reconstruction, Derrida deconstruction, and Rorty neopragmatism. In addition to including different dimensions of postmodernism, the method combines effective mutual learning and effective action. Strengths and limitations of the approach are discussed. The article demonstrates how it can be beneficial to build bridges between and within the postmodernism and organization ethics literatures. Also, the article demonstrates how postmodernism can be positively ethical and not necessarily aethical or nihilistic.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 251 - 270
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1993

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