Business and Professional Ethics Journal
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Special Issue: Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy
Co-Editor: David Bevan
Grenoble Graduate School of Business - david.bevan@grenoble-em.com
Co-Editor, Mollie Painter-Morland
Department of Philosophy, DePaul University - mpainter@depaul.edu
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2012
In this Special Issue we propose to explore a range of themes that have emerged centrally in the work of prominent European philosophers and consider implications for business and professional ethics. We have in mind the work of Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigary, Michel Serres, Julia Kristeva, Giorgio Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, among many others. Outside of Europe, and in mainstream business ethics in particular, these thinkers have been labeled as Continental Philosophers, mainly in order to distinguish their work from the more Anglo-American or analytic approach to philosophy. One may contend that what characterizes “Continental Philosophy” is a preoccupation with ontological questions: Who are we, as subjects, and how do we relate to, and (co)create, the world(s) that constitute our reality?
In mainstream Business Ethics, these considerations are sometimes glossed over in a rush towards solutions and programs that appear to address the ethical dilemmas that face us. We believe that it is valuable and important to take time to (re)consider how we understand ourselves and our capacities for freedom, sovereignty, community, all and each of which form critical points of orientation in Business Ethics. Within Business Ethics, these themes may provoke the following:
Rethinking “international business ethics” from the perspective of world-forming (mondialization). This requires critical analysis of questions of political-economy and the systemic failures of global capitalism.
Presenting organizational ethics with the challenge of rethinking notions such as “corporate culture” and “community” within organizations.
On an individual level, the work of contemporary European philosophers challenges us to rethink what informs our agency. They reject the transcendental subject with its claims to rational aloofness, and examine the blind-spots of the phenomenological subject. What may arise is a more embodied subject, with all of the complications that entails.
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