Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis 4: The Contribution of Jürgen Habermas

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibson Burrell
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Recent Developments

This article is the fourth in a series published by this journal on the relevance to organization studies of the postmodernism-modernism debate. It begins with a brief preface in which some recent developments in the field are placed in context and then goes on to analyze the work of Jürgen Habermas. As a 'critical modern ist' his ideas have a saliency for all those interested in defending organization theory from the charge that our discipline offers no means of preventing our involvement in the next Holocaust. If Habermas is the 'last modernist' then it may be that he represents one last chance for the discipline ... as we currently understand it.

scholarly journals Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172110186
Author(s):  
Peter J Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
International Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Recent Developments

Recent developments have highlighted the tension between democracy and late capitalist economics. In the wake of the Great Recession, international market forces have increasingly taken de facto control of politics. My basic thesis is that a modified version of Jürgen Habermas’ colonization thesis, which opposes the takeover of social and political life by the forces of power (administration) and money (economics), productively conceptualizes these developments. I argue that this framework can help to both diagnose and combat the dangers associated with the overexpansion of functional systemic forces, as well as the broader instrumentalization that they promote. By drawing on his political writings on the future of the European Union after the crisis of the Eurozone, I oppose interpretations of Habermas as a pacified liberal by demonstrating that he shares Karl Marx’s commitment to combatting naturalized views of economics and material reproduction as a force that lie outside of human control.

Jürgen Habermas and Organization Studies

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adler ◽  
Paul du Gay ◽  
Glenn Morgan ◽  
Mike Reed ◽  
Andreas Rasche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

scholarly journals From gendered organizations to compassionate borderspaces: Reading corporeal ethics with Bracha Ettinger

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Kenny ◽  
Marianna Fotaki
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Gendered Organizations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Gender

In this article, we propose a new way of approaching the topic of ethics for management and organization theory. We build on recent developments within critical organization studies that focus on the question of what kind of ethics is possible in organizational contexts that are inevitably beset by difference. Addressing this ‘ethics of difference’, we propose a turn to feminist theory, in which the topic has long been debated but which has been underutilized in organization theory until very recently. Specifically, we draw on the work of Bracha Ettinger to re-think and extend existing understandings. Inspired by gender studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy and art, Ettinger’s work has been celebrated for its revolutionary re-theorization of subjectivity. Drawing on a feminist ethics of the body inspired by psychoanalysis, she presents a concept of ‘trans-subjectivity’. In this, subjectivity is defined by connectedness, co-existence and compassion towards the other, and is grounded in what Ettinger terms the ‘matrixial borderspace’. An ethics of organization derived from the concept of the matrixial suggests that a different kind of ethical relation with the Other is possible. In this article, we demonstrate this through examining the issue of gender in the workplace. We conclude by outlining the implications of this perspective for rethinking ethics, embodiment and gender, and in particular for the development of a corporeal ethics for organization studies.

scholarly journals Habermas, the conceptual debates about public-private-social spheres and the communicative action in organization theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Fróes Couto ◽  
Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Linguistic Categories ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIn this essay, we aim to delineate elements of the Habermas and Hannah Arendt theories about the division between public, private and social spheres, as well as about communicative action in Habermas, in an attempt to convey transpositions of these concepts into the field of organizations. The analysis of the basics of Habermasian construction allows us to take a direct look at the delimitation of the field of interactions and the adoption of linguistic categories of analysis directed to the individual in the environment. Our argument is that the analysis of language in the world of life, for Habermas, means questioning what has not been receiving attention and "discovering" what is hidden in the linguistic universe of human interaction and intention.Keywords: Public sphere. Private sphere. Social sphere. Communicative sction. Jürgen Habermas. Habermas, os debates conceituais sobre as esferas pública-privada-social e a ação comunicativa na teoria das organizaçõesResumo Objetivamos, neste ensaio, delinear didaticamente elementos das teorias de Habermas e Hannah Arendt sobre a divisão entre as esferas pública, privada e social, bem como sobre o agir comunicativo em Habermas, em uma tentativa de aduzir transposições desses conceitos para o campo das organizações. A análise das noções básicas da construção habermasiana permite dar um olhar direcionado à delimitação do campo de interações e à adoção de categorias linguísticas de análise voltadas para o indivíduo no meio. Nosso argumento é que a análise da linguagem no mundo da vida, para Habermas, significa questionar o que não vem recebendo atenção e “descobrir” o que está oculto no universo linguístico da interação e da intenção humana.Palavras-chave: Esfera pública. Esfera privada. Esfera social. Ação comunicativa. Jürgen Habermas.

scholarly journals Theories and Contemporary Development of Organizational Perspectives in Social Sciences. Feminist approach to organizational analysis. Part 3

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Mediani Bhandai
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Secondary Information

This paper is purely theoretical in which I have illustrated the contributions of the founding theorist of Western sociology, by focusing on how they addressed (or didn’t address) organizations. Then, I have discussed (in brief) the development of organizational theory and how organizational theorists are responding to the emergence of challenges to the traditional rational approaches to understanding organizations. These analyses are situated on the historical contexts include major contributions of each theorist. This research is solely based on the secondary information. Paper contents four Sections: first the work of the three founding theorists of Western Sociology, Karl Marx; Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, secondly, I have exemplified the development of organizational theory and the emergence of challenges to the traditional rational approaches to understand the organization; where I have analyzed the work of Classical theorists- Max Weber, Henri Fayol, Frederick Taylor, Luther Halsey Gulick, Herbert A. Simon, Berton H. Kaplan, modern theorist- Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas etc. Third Section covers the contemporary theories and perspectives. In this section I have exemplified how Philip Selznick, Peter Blau, James David Thompson and Charles Perrow incorporated the Weber notion of bureaucracy followed by DiMaggio, Paul, J. and Walter W. Powell etc. and in forth section, covers the feminist approach in theory building with focus of organizational analysis (with the focus of Arlene Daniels, Dorothy Smith, Marjorie DeVault, Gisela Bock and Susan James, Martha Calas, Linda Smircich etc. work). This paper has detailed footnotes quoted from the original sources and contents useful reference of the sociological theory and practices for concerned social scientist to build their knowledge base and research direction.

Jürgen Habermas on the Way to a Postmetaphysical Reading of Kierkegaard

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Klaus Viertbauer
Keyword(s):  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Cooperative Venture ◽  
The Way

Habermas’s postmetaphysical reading of Kierkegaard is paradigmatic for his understanding of religion. It shows, why Habermas reduces religion to fideism. Therefore the paper reconstructs Habermas’s reception of Kierkegaard and compares it with the accounts of Dieter Henrich and Michael Theunissen. Furthermore it demonstrates how Habermas makes use of Kierkegaard’s dialectics of existence to formulate his postmetaphysical thesis of a cooperative venture.

A EDUCAÇÃO EM GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, JÜRGEN HABERMAS E A TEORIA HERMENÊUTICO-CRÍTICA: tendências, desafios e perspectivas para uma prática pedagógica emancipatória

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlene Santos Mafra Medeiros ◽  
Rita Maria Radl-Phillipp ◽  
José Gilliard Santos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theodor Adorno

O artigo em questão apresenta a construção coletiva de uma proposta pedagógica para a Escola Estadual Joaquim José de Medeiros, localizada na cidade de Cruzeta, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, e possui como base epistemológica a teoria social de George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas e a teoria crítica da educação da Escola de Frankfurt, nas perspectivas de Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2003), Jürgen Habermas (2012); e, atualmente, de pesquisadores contemporâneos como Freire (2009), Radl-Philipp (1996, 1998, 2014), Bannell (2006), Pucci (2006), Santos (2007), Medeiros (2010-1016), Casagrande (2014) dentre outros autores que estudam Mead e as teorias críticas numa perspectiva emancipatória.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document