French Philosophy and Social Theory

<p>Introduction: What is French philosophy and What does it mean for business ethics and philosophy of management?.- Business ethics and early modern French Philosophy in the beginning of the 20th Century.- Henri Bergson: Living presence and creative evolution.- Creative evolution and moral and religious development.- Bergson and Business ethics and philosophy of management.- Durkheim and the institutionalization of the moral economy.- From Durkheim to Marcel Mauss (Collège de Sociologie).- The gift in modern society, economics and business.- Introducing Hegel in French social philosophy: Alexandre Kojève.- Georges Bataille: Hegelianism and economy of the gift.- Personalism and Existentialism and their view on business ethics, organization and institutions.- Personalist existentialism and political economy.- Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre: Freedom and contingency.- Simone de Beauvoir, ethics and the Second Sex.- Existentialism and economics: Christian Arnsperger.- The phenomenological tradition: Experience, body and ethics.- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Body and perception.- Emmanuel Lévinas: Phenomenology and the ethics of the other.- Marxism in French Philosophy: From existence to structure and beyond.- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The ambiguity of dialectics.- Jean-Paul Sartre: Circularity of dialectics.- Althusser and Marxist Structuralism as theoretical anti-humanism.- Rancière, Balibar and Badiou: Marxism today.- Structuralism, structural anthropology and social theory.- Structure and language as a system of signs.- Claude Lévi-Strauss and structural anthropology.- Structuralism and contemporary society: Roland Barthes.- Jacques Lacan and the Freudian turn of structuralism.- Structuralism, ethics and organizational analysis.- Post-structuralism, organizational analysis and business ethics.- Michel Foucault: Power, subjectivation and governmentality.- Structures of power i modern society.- Archeology and genealogy of power.- Ethics beyond biopower?.- Gilles Deleuze (and Felix Guattari): capitalism, desire and control society.- Deleuze as a classical philosopher.- Criticism of psychoanalysis and social theory.- Deleuze and the arts.- Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction of CSR and business ethics.- Deconstruction of the political community of organizations.- Justice and responsibility in deconstruction.- Deconstruction and complexity thinking in business ethics.- Jean-Luc Nancy and the continuation of Derrida’s project.- Beyond Post-structuralism: The critical hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricœur.- The ethical foundations of organizational deliberation.- Ethical life and judgment in organizations.- The tradition of political philosophy – From Raymond Aron and democratic institutionalism to Republican Liberalism.- Raymond Aron: Defense of liberal democracy.- Castoriadis and the concept of institutions and institutionalization.- Castoriadis’ critique of bureaucracy.- A new theory of democracy.- Claude Lefort and Marcel Gauchet.- From Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut: to liberalism.- Consequences for business ethics and philosophy of management of the liberal tradition.- Post-structuralist Sociology and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Bourdieu and Boltanski.- Pierre Bourdieu : Sociology of praxis and intentional structure.- Habitus and the social structures of the economy.- The economic sociology of late capitalism: Luc Boltanski.- Different orders or regimes of worth.- The new spirit of capitalism.- Post-Modernism, Hypermodernism and Critique of the Spirit of Capitalism.- Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern condition.- Jean Baudrillard: postmodernism, seduction and simulation.- Gilles Lipovetsky: From Postmodernity to Hypermodernity.- Bernard Stiegler: Hypermodernism, Pharmacology and Ars Industrialis.- Conclusion and perspectives: Implications of French Philosophy for business ethics and philosophy of management.- References (Cited Litterature) </p>