French Philosophy and Social Theory: A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management

1. Business Ethics and Early Modern French Philosophy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
2. Personalism and Existentialism: Their View on Business Ethics, Organizations, and Institutions
3. The Phenomenological Tradition: Experience, Body and Ethics
4. Marxism in French Philosophy: From Existence to Structure and Beyond
5. Structuralism, Structural Anthropology, and Social Theory
6. Poststructuralism, Organizational Analysis, and Business Ethics
7. Beyond Poststructuralism: The Critical Hermeneutical Philosophy of Paul Ricœur
8. The Tradition of Political Philosophy: From Raymond Aron and Democratic Institutionalism to Republican Liberalism
9. Poststructuralist Sociology and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Bourdieu and Boltanski
10. Postmodernism, Hypermodernism, and Critique of the Spirit of Capitalism
11. Conclusion and Perspectives: Implications of French Philosophy for Business Ethics and Philosophy of Management

This book demonstrates how the conceptual resources of contemporary French philosophy from the early 20thCentury to the present day can be applied to give us new perspectives on business ethics and the ethics of organizations. In providing an overview of possible applications, the book covers a wide range of philosophers, philosophical movements and perspectives and provides detailed analyses of core materials relevant to business ethics. It explores and analyzes French philosophy, taking into account phenomenology, existentialism, French epistemology, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism as well as recent discussions of philosophy of organizations and management. Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading and educational illustrations of possible applications to the mainstream business ethics and ethics of organization literature.