Witnessing and organization: Existential phenomenological reflections on intersubjectivity

Philosophy Today

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-87

  Borgerson, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.5840/philtoday201054137     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. See Robert Audi, Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (New York: Routledge, 1998), particularly chapter 5
2. Donna Haraway, Modest Witness: Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (New York: Routledge, 1997), 24
3. For a broader discussion of the idea of witnessing, see Faisal Devji, Landscapes of Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (London: Hurst, 2005)
4. Kelly Oliver, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
5. Anne-Marie Schimmel, Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994)
6. For work on the "'disinterested witness'" that explores intersections of Advaita Vedanta and "Western" phenomenologies, see Bina Gupta, The Disinterested Witness: A Fragment of Advaita Vedanta Phenomenology (Evanston,: Northwestern University Press, 1998)
7. "Advaita Vedanta and Husserl's Phenomenology, " Husserl Studies 20 (2004):119-34
8. See, for example, Damian O'Doherty, "Organization: Recovering Philosophy, " in Campbell Jones and René ten Bos, eds., Philosophy and Organization (London: Routledge, 2007):21-38
9. See Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "What Is Phenomenology, " trans. John Bannan, in Jerry H. Gill, ed., Philosophy Today, volume 3 (London: Macmillan, 1970):15-36
10. See, for example, Paul Ricoeur, Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology, trans. Edward G. Ballard and Lester E. Embree (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967)
11. See, for example, Janet L. Borgerson, "Judith Butler: On Organizing Subjectivities, " Sociological Review 53 (2005):63-79
12. Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler, "Managing Subjectivity and the Dialectic of Self-consciousness: Hegel and Organization Theory, " Organization 8:4 (2001):565-85
13. Janet L. Borgerson, "Materiality, Agency, and the Constitution of Consuming Subjects: Insights for Consumer Research, " Advances in Consumer Research 32 (2005):439-43
14. Daniel Miller, Material Culture and Mass Consumption (Oxford: Berg, 1987)
15. Paul Rabinow, Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)
16. Gerald Zaltman, How Consumers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
17. Judith Butler, Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987)
18. See also, Lois McNay, Against Recognition (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)
19. Jacques Derrida, "'A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text': Poetics and Politics of Witnessing, " trans. Rachel Bowlby in Michael P. Clark, ed., Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000):180-207
20. Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969)
21. Ethics and Infinity, trans. Richard Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985)
22. God, Death, and Time, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)
23. Oliver, Witnessing
24. and a more recent articulation in Kelly Oliver, "Witnessing and Testimony, " Paralax 10 (2004):79-88. Haraway has argued for the notion of a "modest witness" rejecting the invisible self in favor of a witness that fully acknowledges life context in Modest Wimess
25. See, as well, Ian Almond, "Doing Violence upon God: Nonviolent Alterities and Their Medieval Precedents, " The Harvard Theological Review 93 (1999):325-47
26. Butler, Subjects of Desire, 195
27. For discussion in recent Islamic Philosophy see Mehdi Hairi Yazdi, The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992)
28. also Oliver Leaman, A Brief Introduction to Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge: Polity, 1999)
29. Valerie Fournier, "Keeping the Veil of Otherness: Practicing Disconnection" in Barbara Czarniawska and Heater Höpfl, eds., Casting the Other: The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations (London: Routledge, 2002), 81
30. See also, Edward Wray-Bliss, "Research Subjects/Research Subjections: The Politics and Ethics of Critical Research, " Organization 10:2 (2003):307-25
31. Fournier, "Keeping the Veil, " 81
32. Jackie Ford and Nancy Harding, "We Went Looking for an Organization but Could Find Only the Metaphysics of Its Presence, " Sociology 38:4 (2004):815-30
33. Cf., Robert Chia, "Decision: A Deconstructive Analysis, " Journal of Management Studies 31:6 (1994):781-806
34. See also, Wray-Bliss, "Research Subjects/Research Subjections."
35. Ford and Harding, "We Went Looking for an Organization, " 828
36. Janet Borgerson, "Feminist Ethical ontology: Contesting 'the The Bare Giveness of Intersubjectivity, '" Feminist Theory 2 (2001):173-87
37. L. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (New York: Routledge, 2000), 145-47
38. Janet Borgerson, "Managing Desire: Heretical Transformation in Pasolini's Medea, " Consumption, Markets & Culture 5 (2002):55-62
39. See Janet Borgerson and Alf Rehn, "General Economy and Productive Dualisms, " Gender, Work and Organization 11:4 (2004):455-74
40. See also, Maria Calás and Linda Smircich, "Re-writing Gender into Organizational Theorizing: Directions from Feminist Perspectives, " in Michael Reed and Michael Hughs, eds., Rethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis (London: Sage, 1992), 227-53
41. Roland Munro, "Doublecrossing the Landscapes of Philosophy: Conjoining the Transparency of "Things' with the Veil of Language, " in Campbell Jones and René ten Bos, eds., Philosophy and Organization (London: Routledge, 2007):184-200
42. Michael Reed, "In Praise of Duality and Dualism: Rethinking Agency and Structure in Organizational Analysis, " Organization Studies 18 (1997):21-42
43. Cf. also Nicholas Beech and George Cairns, "Coping with Change: The Contribution of Postdichotomous Ontologies, " Human Relations 54:10 (2001):1303-24
44. David Knights, "Organization Theory in the Age of Deconstruction: Dualism, Gender, and Postmodernism Revisited, " Organization Studies 18 (1997):1-19
45. Arkady Plotnitsky, Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After Bohr and Derrida (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), 29
46. Kelly Oliver, Womanizing Nietzsche (New York: Routledge, 1995), 194
47. See as well, Nancy Fraser and Alex Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange, trans. Joel Golb, James Ingram, and Christiane Wilke (London: Verso, 2003)
48. Jean-Philippe Deranty, "Witnessing the Inhuman: Agamben or Merleau-Ponty, " South Atlantic Quarterly 107 (2008):165-86
49. See Janet L. Borgerson, "Living Proof: Reflections on lrreplaceability, " C. L. R. James Journal 14 (2008):269-83
50. and Lewis Gordon, "Irreplaceability: An Existential Phenomenological Reflection, " Listening: A Journal of Religion and Culture 3 (2003):190-202
51. Oliver, Witnessing, 4
52. See also Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995)
53. Janet L. Borgerson, "Feminist Ethical Ontology: Contesting the 'Bare Givenness of Intersubjectivity, '" Feminist Theory 2 (2001):173-89
54. Kelly Oliver, Subjectivity Without Subjects (Lanham, MD: Rowman & and Littlefield, 1998)
55. See also Cathryn Vasseleu, Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty (London: Routledge, 1998)
56. Georges Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets (New York: Doubleday, 1954), 54
57. Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 4
58. N. Katherine Hayles, "Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments, " Configurations 10 (2002):297-320
59. Haraway, Modest Witness, 269
60. For example, Merleau-Ponty, "What is Phenomenology, " 23-24
61. Diana Fuss, Identification Papers (New York: Routledge, 1995, 145
62. Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 291
63. Simon Glendinning, In the Name of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2007), 9
64. See Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, "Ethical Issues in Global Marketing: Avoiding Bad Faith in Visual Representation, " European Journal of Marketing 36:5/6 (2002):570-94