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Heidegger’s Critique of Technology and the Contemporary Return to Artisan Business Activity

Authors: Eleanor Helms, John Dobson

Published in: Philosophy of Management | Issue 3/2016

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So far aesthetics has played a limited role in our understanding of business activity, focused mainly on evaluating product quality and the character qualities (virtues) of the firm that produced them We draw on Heidegger’s fuller account of aesthetic value to show how a firm—like a work of art – can disclose the way human projects and technologies are already at work in a given context. In this way, we show that firms play an essential role in human self-understanding—a role that Heidegger assigns primarily to works of art. We then apply the Heideggerian approach to the contemporary turn to artisanal products such as personalized handcrafts, craft beer and the “third wave” coffee movement.

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Title: Heidegger’s Critique of Technology and the Contemporary Return to Artisan Business Activity
Authors: Eleanor Helms
John Dobson
Publication date: 01-11-2016
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Philosophy of Management / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1740-3812
Electronic ISSN: 2052-9597
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-016-0025-y

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