Objectivity Is Not Neutrality Susan C. McDonough and data comprehension

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Objectivity Is Not Neutrality Susan C. McDonough and data comprehensionIn Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Thomas L. Haskell argues for a moderate historicism that acknowledges the force of perspective and reaffirms the pluralistic practices of a liberal democratic societyeven while upholding time honored distinctions between fact and fiction, scholarship and propaganda, right and might. Haskell addresses questions that will interest philosophers and literary theorists no less than historians, exploring topics ranging from