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1. Introduction

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Erschienen in: Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism

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This Introduction explores both the nature of modernisation and the critiques mounted against it by the different bodies of postmodernist thought. The most successful model for “modernisation”, it is argued, is one associated not just with “capitalism”. Instead, it is premised on an embrace of market economies, respect for private property and individual rights, political democracy, and legally free and mobile labour forces. Although there are sharp divisions within postmodernist canon—most particularly between Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida—the various strands of postmodernism, nevertheless, share a common hostility to the idea that human progress can (or should) be based on science, increased wealth, and rational understandings of the objective world.

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Nächstes Kapitel Intellectual Heritage: Debates at the Roots of Modernity and Postmodernism

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (trans. Allan Bloom), Emile: On Education, (London, UK: Penguin Classics, 1979), 47.

Ibid., 54.

Ibid., 54–55.

Ibid., 53.

Sidney Pollard, The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, (London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1965), 37.

Clapham, Early Railway Age, 381–82.

Murphy, Liao and Welsch, “Conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought”, 12, 16.

Morgen Witzel, A History of Management Thought, (Abington, UK: Routledge, 2012), 7.

Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, (London, UK: Penguin Books, 2011), 39.

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Fernand Braudel (trans. Sian Reynolds), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, (New York, 1975), Vol. 1, 319.

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Clapham, Early Railway Age, 75–82.

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Max Weber (trans. Frank Knight), General Economic History, (Glencoe, ILL: The Free Press, 1927), 334. Weber’s General Economic History was first published in Germany in 1922.

Ibid., 302.

Pollard, Genesis of Modern Management, 6–7.

Weber, General Economic History, 367.

Daniel Wren, The Evolution of Management Thought, (New York, NY: Ronald Press, 1972, 35). This was the first edition of this book. It is currently in its seventh edition. This wording does not appear in the most recent editions.

Fernand Braudel (trans. Sian Reynolds), The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2 (New York, 1975), 725.

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Ibid., 456–58.

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Ibid., 89.

Ibid.

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Milorad Novecivic, J. Logan Jones and Shawn Carraher, “Decentring Wren’s Evolution of Management Thought”, in Patricia Genoe McLaren, Albert J. Mills and Terrance G. Weatherbee (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 13.

Stephanie Decker, Mathias Kipping and R. Daniel Whadwani, “New business histories! Plurality in business history research methods’”, Business History, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. 2015), 33.

Gibson Burrell, “Modernism, postmodernism and organizational analysis: The contribution of Michel Foucault”, in Alan Mckinlay and Ken Starkey (Eds.), Foucault, Management and Organization Theory, (London, UK: Sage, 1998), 15.

Hayden White, “Foucault decoded: notes from underground”, History and Theory, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1973) 38.

The book started life as Foucault’s PhD thesis, Folie et Déraison: Historie de La Folie à l’âge Classique. An abridged version was then published in English as Michel Foucault (trans. Richard Howard), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1965). Following Derrida’s critique, an expanded version was published as Michel Foucault (trans. Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa), History of Madness, Second Edition, (London, UK: Routledge, 2006).

Jacques Derrida (trans. Alan Bass), Writing and Difference, (London and New York: Routledge Classics, 2001), 39.

Ibid., 49, 39.

Ibid., 69–70.

Michel Foucault, “Appendix II – My body, this paper, this fire”, in Foucault, History of Madness, 573.

Ibid., 573.

Michel Foucault (trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith), The Archaeology of Knowledge, (New York, NY: Pantheon, 1972), 11.

Peter Clark and Michael Rowlinson, “The treatment of history in organization studies: towards an ‘historic turn’?” Business History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2004), 341.

Foucault, History of Sexuality, 93, 100.

See Foucault, Madness and Civilization, Chap. LX (The Birth of the Asylum), 241–78.

Roy Jacques and Gabrielle Durepos, “A history of management histories: Does the story of our past and the way we tell it matter”, in Patricia Genoe McLaren, Albert J. Mills and Terrance G. Weatherbee (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 97.

Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Part III, Article 2, para. 18; Andrew Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures: An Exploration of the Scientific, Moral and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain, (London, UK: Charles Knight, 1835); Dionysius Lardner, Railway Economy in Europe and America: The New Art of Transport, (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1850); Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States, 1868–9, (New York, NY: H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1868).

Jeffrey Muldoon and Daniel B. Marin, “John Florio and the introduction of management into the English vocabulary”, Journal of Management History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2012), 129–36.

Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1996), ix.

See, for example, Michael Rowlinson, “Revising the historic turn: a personal reflection”, in Patricia Genoe McLaren, Albert J. Mills and Terrance G. Weatherbee (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 70–80.

Gabrielle A.T. Durepos and Albert J. Mills, ANTi-History: Theorizing the Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organization Studies, (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2012), 131.

Foucault, History of Sexuality, 140–41.

Michael Rowlinson and Chris Carter, “Foucault and history in organization studies”, Organization, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2002), 540.

Foucault, History of Sexuality, 96.

Jean-Francois Lyotard (trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachael Bowlby), The Inhuman, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), 6, 67.

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1994), Chap. 6 (Exchanging), 166–214.

Gibson Burrell, Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory, (London, UK: Sage, 1997), 21–22.

Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. R.J. Hollingdale), The Anti-Christ, (London, UK: Penguin Classics, 1990), 187.

Alfred Kieser, “Why organization theory needs historical analysis – and how this should be performed”, Organization Science, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov. 1994), 608–20; Rowlinson and Carter, “Foucault and history”, 527–47; Clark and Rowlinson, “Treatment of history”, 331–52; Charles Booth and Michael Rowlinson, “Management and organizational history: prospects”, Management and Organizational History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006), 5–30; Rowlinson, Hassard and Decker, “Research strategies for organizational history”, 250–74; Decker, Kipping and Whadwani, “New business histories”, 30–40.

Alan Mckinlay and Ken Starkey (Eds.), Foucault, Management and Organization Theory, (London, UK: Sage, 1998).

Clark and Rowlinson, “Treatment of history”, 331.

Ibid., 337.

Foucault, The Order of Things, 168, 86–87, 94, xiv, xx–xxi; Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge, 155.

White, “Foucault decoded”, 26.

White, Metahistory, White, 372–73; “The value of narrativity”, 5–27; Hayden White, “The politics of historical interpretation: Discipline and de-sublimation”, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Sept. 1982), 113–37; Hayden White, “The historical text as literary artefact”, in Brian Fay, Philip Pomper and Richard T. Van (Eds.), History and Theory: Contemporary Readings, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998), 15–33.

Derrida, Writing and Difference, 46–47.

Ibid., 42.

Ferdinand de Saussure (trans. Wade Baskins), Course in General Linguistics, (New York, NY: Fontana Collins, 1974); Plato (trans. R. Hackforth), Phaedrus, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1972), 159.

Derrida, Writing and Difference, 253, 184–85.

Ibid., 2. Also, Foucault, The Order of Things, xxii–xxiii, 317.

Paul R. Gross, “Introduction”, in Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt and Martin W. Lewis (Eds.), The Flight from Science and Reason, (New York, NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1996), 2.

Sande Cohen, Passive Nihilism: Cultural Historiography and the Rhetorics of Scholarship, (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 2.

Alan Munslow, Deconstructing History, (Abington, UK: Routledge, 1997), 17.

E.H. Carr, What Is History? (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), 50.

Munslow, Deconstructing History, 5.

Henri Poincare (trans. William John Greenstreet), Science and Hypothesis, (New York, NY: Walter Scott Publishing, 1905), 156, 158. Poincare’s Science and Hypothesis was first published in French in 1902.

Ibid., 167–68, 159.

Hobbes, Leviathan, 40, 30.

Poincare, Science and Hypothesis, 168.

Eagleton, Illusions of Postmodernism; Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique, (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1989); Christopher Norris, The Truth About Postmodernism, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993); Gross, Levitt and Lewis (Eds.), The Flight from Science and Reason.

Titel: Introduction
verfasst von: Bradley Bowden
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-76179-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-76180-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76180-0_1