Postcritical Management Studies

Ghislain Deslandes is a Full Professor at ESCP Business School (Paris Campus) where he teaches Philosophy, Management and Communication.  His research has been published in journals like European Management Journal, European Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, Organization or Organization Studies. His books include Le management éthique (Dunod, 2012), Essai sur les données philosophiques du management (PUF, 2013)/ Best essay EFMD-FNEGE in 2015, Critique de la condition managériale (PUF, 2016), Antiphilosophie du christianisme (Ovadia)/ translated in english in 2020 (Springer), A propos du management et d’un problème plus général (PUF, 2020) and Court traité sur la recherche d’une première vérité (Ovadia, 2020). Ghislain Deslandes was also an elected Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh) from 2013 to 2019.

• Introduction.- Part I: From proto-management to conflicting interpretations.- Chapter 1. Management as a philosophical problem.- Chapter 2. Continental philosophy and post-management.- Chapter 3. The five senses of management.- Part II: Rethinking management.- Chapter 4. Organizations and the subjective body.- Chapter 5."Desaffectio societatis".- Chapter 6. Individual experience at a time of social acceleration.- Part III: Rebuilding management.- Chapter 7. The powerlessness of the powerful.- Chapter 8. Working without joy?.- Chapter 9. Redefining "management”.- Conclusion.

“Ghislain Deslandes composed this book in three movements or three essays. There is first a historical depiction of management. The second is an essay on the need to rethink management and, finally, a third part then starts that rethinking. This book is important because of the second and third parts. Hence, the title, indeed, suggests why it is worth picking up this book. … This is a strong book to start the conversation about weak management.” (Wim Vandekerckhove, Philosophy of Management, Vol. 23 (4), 2024)