Phenomenology of the embodied organization [electronic resource]

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization explores the fundamental and integral role of the body and embodiment in organizational life-worlds. Drawing...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Küpers, Wendelin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding Phenomenology; 2.1 Investigating the structures of consciousness; 2.2 Intentionality; 2.3 Essences; 2.4 Methodologies of phenomenology; 2.5 Return to life-world; 2.6 Critique and further developments of phenomenology; 2.6.1 Responses to criticism of phenomenology; 3 Advanced Phenomenology and Relational Ontology of Merleau-Ponty; 3.1 Advancing by returning to body and embodiment; 3.2 Embodied senses and sensation; 3.3 Senses as affective and pathic event; 3.4 Embodied perception.
  • 3.5 Beyond empiricism and intellectualism: body and embodiment as media3.6 Embodied expression; 3.7 Embodied intentionality; 3.7.1 Bodily-mediated, moving, affective and e-motional intentionality; 3.7.2 Kinesthetic intentionality; 3.7.3 Affective and e-motional intentionality; 3.7.4 Structural, generative and dialectic dimensions of intentionality; 3.7.5 Operative intentionality: prakto-gnosis of the 'I can'; 3.7.6 Projection and intentional arc; 3.7.7 Body-schemes and body-images; 3.7.8 We-mode-intentionalities and joint, plural actions; 3.8 Embodied responsiveness.
  • 3.8.1 Affective and operative responding3.8.2 Diastasis, diachrony and alterity of creative responsiveness; 3.8.3 Creative answering; 3.9 Inter-corporeality of social bodies and embodied intersubjectivities; 3.9.1 Intersubjectivity, embodied language and expression; 3.9.2 Embodiment, culture and proto-ethical 'inter-worlds'; 3.10 The Flesh of be(com)ing; 3.10.1 Flesh as carnality and element of being; 3.10.2 Flesh as post-dualistic and formative medium; 3.10.3 Foldings, écart and the reversibility of Flesh; 3.10.4 Reversibilites and invitation to an experiment; 3.10.5 Chiasm?
  • 3.10.6 Ontology of 'wild being'3.10.7 The paradox of creative expression; 3.11 Advanced phenomenology as proto-integral philosophy of inter-be-coming!; 3.11.1 Post-dualistic perspectives on 'in(ter- )between'; 3.11.2 Against retro-romanticism: the embodied ecology of Flesh; 3.11.3 'Engaged Gelassenheit'; 4 Organization as an embodied life-world of practice; 4.1 Phenomenological understanding of practice; 4.2 Embodied senses, sensation and perception in organization; 4.2.1 'We the Senses
  • and how we make sense in the world of organizing'; 4.2.2 Out-lining
  • overview; 4.2.2.1 Seeing /Sight.
  • 4.2.2.2 Hearing/Listening4.2.2.3 We senses of smell, taste and touch; 4.2.2.4 Smelling/Smell; 4.2.2.5 Tasting/Taste; 4.2.2.6 Touching/Touch; 4.2.2.7 Other senses and synaesthesia of sensation; 4.2.3 Understanding us embodied senses as an 'intelligent' part of the living body; 4.2.4 Re-membering organ-izations as sensuous embodied 'life-worlds'; 4.2.5 Understanding sense-mediated embodied aesthetics in organ-izations; 5 Embodied Intentionality, Intersubjectivities and Responsiveness in Organization; 5.1 Embodied intentionality in organization.