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Postcritical Management Studies

Philosophical Investigations

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Authors:
  1. Ghislain Deslandes

    1. Law, Economics and Humanities, ESCP Business School, Paris, France

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  • The first book to offer a new definition of contemporary management using Michel Henry's philosophy
  • Offers a different analysis by taking the real, sensitive and pathetic subjectivity of individuals as starting point
  • Focuses on rethinking management and its main themes from a philosophical (and phenomenological) approach

Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP, volume 65)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. From Proto-Management to Contemporary Functional Stupidity

    • Ghislain Deslandes
    Pages 1-38

  3. Rethinking Management

    • Ghislain Deslandes
    Pages 39-89

  4. Rebuilding Management

    • Ghislain Deslandes
    Pages 91-125

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 127-159
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About this book

This book is the first of its kind to offer a new definition of contemporary management. It uses Michel Henry’s philosophy and takes the real, sensitive and pathetic subjectivity of individuals as the starting point of the analysis as opposed to the usual large categories of representations; resources; images; and discourses. This book thus proposes to rethink management by insisting on the dialectic of strength and vulnerability; its power of constraint, imitation and imagination; and finally its framework of action situated in a fourfold concern for the self, for people, for institutions and for the environment. These different notions are useful in order to experience a deeper understanding of management that is free from the obsolescence of the distant recommendations of ancient protomanagement and the outdated and dubious prescriptions of the so-called “scientific management”.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Law, Economics and Humanities, ESCP Business School, Paris, France

    Ghislain Deslandes

About the author

Ghislain Deslandes is a Full Professor at ESCP Business School (Paris Campus) where he teaches Philosophy, Management and Communication.  His research has been published in journals like European Management Journal, European Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, Organization or Organization Studies. His books include Le management éthique (Dunod, 2012), Essai sur les données philosophiques du management (PUF, 2013)/ Best essay EFMD-FNEGE in 2015, Critique de la condition managériale (PUF, 2016), Antiphilosophie du christianisme (Ovadia)/ translated in english in 2020 (Springer), A propos du management et d’un problème plus général (PUF, 2020) and Court traité sur la recherche d’une première vérité (Ovadia, 2020). Ghislain Deslandes was also an elected Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh) from 2013 to 2019.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Postcritical Management Studies

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Investigations

  • Authors: Ghislain Deslandes

  • Series Title: Ethical Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29404-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29403-7Published: 27 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29406-8Due: 27 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29404-4Published: 26 May 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2707

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Ethics, Management, Phenomenology, Organization, Political Philosophy

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