Minka Woermann Livres

This study explores the complexities of corporate ethics through a postmodern lens, particularly using Jacques Derrida's deconstructive philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of context in ethical claims and offers insights into corporate social responsibility, responsible management, and teaching business ethics, advocating for a nuanced understanding of ethical practices.

This work addresses the topic of philosophical complexity, which shares certain assumptions with scientific complexity, cybernetics, and General Systems Theory, but which is also developing as a subject field in its own right. Specifically, the post-structural reading of philosophical complexity that was pioneered by Paul Cilliers is further developed in this study. To this end, the ideas of a number of contemporary French post-structural theorists and their predecessors - including Derrida, Nancy, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Saussure, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hegel - are introduced. The implications that their various insights hold for our understanding of complex human systems are teased out at the hand of the themes of economy, (social) ontology, subjectivity, epistemology, and ethics. The analyses are also illuminated at the hand of the problematic of the foreigner and the related challenges of showing hospitality to foreigners. The study presents a sophisticated account of both philosophical complexity and philosophies of difference. By relating these subject fields, the study also extends our understanding of philosophical complexity, and offers an original characterisation of the aforementioned philosophers as complex thinkers.

Exploring the ethical complexities of the business landscape, this book presents a postmodern perspective on ethics. It delves into concepts like responsible leadership and corporate responsibility, highlighting their significance in navigating contemporary business challenges. Through this lens, it engages with the intricate moral dilemmas faced by organizations today.