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Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making
the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips
things and people of their identity and incorporates them in a
homogenized rational order. Illusory, but nonetheless oppressive.
Rationality's totalitarian character can provoke resistance and
grief with people who are enlisted by it. This can lead to a
shameful confrontation in which the thinker is being confronted
with his victim's resistance and sees himself and his thinking made
questionable. By proceeding along this route, thinking can be
brought to self-criticism and to revision of standpoints.
This description by Levinas of rational thinking shows
similarity to what managers do in organizations. They make their
business controllable, but at the same time with their planning and
schemes they create a totalitarian straitjacket. This similarity
suggests that also the reactions to imperialistic rationality from
Levinas' description ought to be found in organizations. Is it
indeed possible to indicate there the kind of resistance and grief
Levinas speaks about? Does that give rise to confrontations between
managers and their co-workers who are supposed to subordinate to
their schemes? Do managers then feel shame? And do those shameful
confrontations consequently lead to self-reflection and change?
Desk research suggests that the above elements are partly to be
found in the literature of management theory. Interviews with
managers show that Levinas' line of thought can also be found in
its completeness within organizations. At the same time it becomes
clear that becoming conscious of the elements of that line of
thought - that rationality is all-conquering, that it provokes
resistance, that that can lead to shame as well as to a new
beginning - this is a difficult path to travel. The related
experiences are easily forgotten and sometimes difficult to
excavate. Translation of Levinas' thinking into terms of management
and organization can help us spot them where they play their role
in organizations.
Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making
the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips
things and people of their identity and incorporates them in a
homogenized rational order. Illusory, but nonetheless oppressive.
Rationality's totalitarian character can provoke resistance and
grief with people who are enlisted by it. This can lead to a
shameful confrontation in which the thinker is being confronted
with his victim's resistance and sees himself and his thinking made
questionable. By proceeding along this route, thinking can be
brought to self-criticism and to revision of standpoints.
This description by Levinas of rational thinking shows
similarity to what managers do in organizations. They make their
business controllable, but at the same time with their planning and
schemes they create a totalitarian straitjacket. This similarity
suggests that also the reactions to imperialistic rationality from
Levinas' description ought to be found in organizations. Is it
indeed possible to indicate there the kind of resistance and grief
Levinas speaks about? Does that give rise to confrontations between
managers and their co-workers who are supposed to subordinate to
their schemes? Do managers then feel shame? And do those shameful
confrontations consequently lead to self-reflection and change?
Desk research suggests that the above elements are partly to be
found in the literature of management theory. Interviews with
managers show that Levinas' line of thought can also be found in
its completeness within organizations. At the same time it becomes
clear that becoming conscious of the elements of that line of
thought - that rationality is all-conquering, that it provokes
resistance, that that can lead to shame as well as to a new
beginning - this is a difficult path to travel. The related
experiences are easily forgotten and sometimes difficult to
excavate. Translation of Levinas' thinking into terms of management
and organization can help us spot them where they play their role
in organizations.
This is an examination of the key themes in Africa's fiscal reforms
and trade liberalization, and her prospects for improving trade and
development. In this work, differing reform strategies are reformed
and assessed with a range of case studies of fiscal reform in
Kenya, the Cote d'Ivoire and Tanzania. The impact of trade
liberalization and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries
are also assessed.
On Australia Day 1990, a 73-year-old man was plucked from the
Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly 900 men,
women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. David Bevan describes
the legal maneuverings that followed in a compelling work of
courtroom drama.
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++++ A Memorial Of Moses Allen Llewlyn David Bevan Dodd, Mead &
Co., 1878
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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This book is the first of two companion volumes by these authors on
trade shocks in controlled economies. Both theoretically innovative
and drawing on extensive applied work, it addresses a number of
issues in the forefront of economics, principally the relationship
between macro and micro economics, by analysing the impact of an
external macro shock - the coffee price boom - on each of two
developing countries which have much in common but whose
governmental organizations and objectives differ sharply. The
authors focus on three important ways in which governments affect
peasants: setting crop prices; controlling access to consumer
goods; and provision of public services. They address these three
areas using microeconomic analysis and household survey data
collected in Kenya and Tanzania. Much of the analysis is relevant
for a wide class of developing countries.
This volume analyses and compares economic growth in Nigeria and Indonesia during the period from 1950 to 1985, addressing questions as to why one country was so much more successful than the other. In providing some surprising answers for those who believed that the divergence would be found in deeply rooted, long term trends, the authors also offer insight into what has become a reversal of fortune in the late 1990's, as Indonesia has experienced decline, and the Nigerian economy had stabilized.
The two principal axes of inquiry are Malraux's ongoing quest for a
dimension of transcendence within human life and, at lest as
compelling, his search for the most appropriate and effective means
by which to express a changing awareness of just what that
dimension might be. Not surprisingly, in a world apparently doomed
to languish in the spectral shadow of Death, there are certain
constants: a yearning for some fraternity to combat man's essential
solitude, a refusal to sink without effort into the vortex of the
Absurd, a conviciton that life is to be lived fully and intensely.
The human condition is what it is. The ways in which Malraux's
characters, and of course Malraux himself, cope with this condition
reveal a clear evolution, especially from the 1933 novel La
condition humaine onwards. The reader follows Malraux from playful
adolescence through the dichotomy of anguish and glorification in
his middle years, towards the primarily interrogative utterances of
the mature man. The often frivolous, sometimes sardonic, humour of
youth gives way first to a painful recognition of the abyss, then
to the discovery of a very tentative equilibrium in the philosophy
of metamorphosis espoused by an older Malraux. Andre Malraux:
Towards the Expression of Transcendence reveals the principal steps
by which Malraux achieved that equilibrium.
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