书目名称 | The Shame of Reason in Organizational Change |
副标题 | A Levinassian Perspe |
编辑 | Naud van der Ven |
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概述 | Emphasizes the value of Levinas‘ philosophy in the field of Business Ethics.Presents Levinas as a pragmatist rather than a moralist.Introduces experience (viz: that of shame, distress and anxiety) int |
丛书名称 | Issues in Business Ethics |
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描述 | .Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips things and people of their identity and incorporates them in a homogenized rational order. Illusory, but nonetheless oppressive. Rationality’s totalitarian character can provoke resistance and grief with people who are enlisted by it. This can lead to a shameful confrontation in which the thinker is being confronted with his victim’s resistance and sees himself and his thinking made questionable. By proceeding along this route, thinking can be brought to self-criticism and to revision of standpoints..This description by Levinas of rational thinking shows similarity to what managers do in organizations. They make their business controllable, but at the same time with their planning and schemes they create a totalitarian straitjacket. This similarity suggests that also the reactions to imperialistic rationality from Levinas’ description ought to be found in organizations. Is it indeed possible to indicate there the kind of resistance and grief Levinas speaks about? Does that give rise to confrontations between managers and their co-workers who are supposed t |
出版日期 | Book 2011 |
关键词 | Business Ethics; Derrida; Emmanuel Levinas; Financial Crisis; Foucault; Glass Ceiling; Heidegger; Human Res |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9373-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-3643-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-9373-8Series ISSN 0925-6733 Series E-ISSN 2215-1680 |
issn_series | 0925-6733 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 |