Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche

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dc.contributor.advisorEveringham, Geoffen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMolteno, Donald Barkly Leathamen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-28T06:05:04Z
dc.date.available2015-12-28T06:05:04Z
dc.date.issued1991en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 112-120.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMolteno, D. B. L. (1991). <i>Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,College of Accounting. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15972en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMolteno, Donald Barkly Leatham. <i>"Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,College of Accounting, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15972en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMolteno, D. 1991. Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Molteno, Donald Barkly Leatham AB - 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. DA - 1991 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1991 T1 - Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche TI - Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15972 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMolteno DBL. Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,College of Accounting, 1991 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15972en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCollege of Accountingen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAccountingen_ZA
dc.titleTapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzscheen_ZA
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