`Outing' Organizational Analysts: Some Reflections Upon Parker's Tantrum
以帕克关于后现代批判立场的讨论为起点,反思如何将伦理政治关切融入组织知识生产,并推荐一种后人文主义路径来避免其人文主义取向中的唯意志论和主观主义问题。
Parker (1995a) asks a fundamental question begged by the postmodern suspicion of modernist metanarratives: `Critique in the Name of What?' His discussion of this issue, in which a self-consciously ethical commitment is advocated, is used in this paper as a springboard for further reflection upon the possibility of making the articulation and pursuit of ethico-political concerns central to the production of knowledge about organizing and organizations. Parker favours a humanist orientation, which respondents to his paper persuasively criticize for its voluntarism and subjectivism. In contrast, I commend a post-humanist (not anti-humanist) approach which suggests a way of retaining Parker's ethico-politico commitment without falling foul of the problems identified by his critics.