Ghislain Deslandes | |
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Nationality | French |
Notable work | Antiphilosophy of Christianity, The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy |
Institutions | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris-Dauphine, Northwestern University, Harvard University |
Main interests | Continental philosophy, Leadership studies, Media management, Postmodern theology |
Notable ideas | Beau geste, Desaffectio societatis, Informal benevolence, Organosophy, Postcritical hermeneutics, Weak management |
Ghislain Deslandes is a philosopher born in Angers (France) on the 16th of August 1970.
His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as management science, leadership studies and postmodern theology.
At ESCP Business School, he is full professor and a member of the Law, Economics and Humanities department and he is best known as the academic director of the Media programme since 1997, a pioneer in Europe in the fields of media economics and media management.
He received the EFMD-FNEGE Best Essay award in 2015 [1] and the 1st ESCP Research award in 2019. [2]
He is also a former program director at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh) and a full member of the Société Française de Philosophie.
His inaugural research focuses on the philosophical affinities between Blaise Pascal and Søren Kierkegaard, highlighting a sense of unity presented as an Antiphilosophy of Christianity. His work also explores issues in business ethics, communication studies, gender studies or stakeholder theory by contrasting the ideas of these two authors with those of others in the Western philosophical tradition. His approach to organisational phenomena allows him to revisit the field of management science by formulating the contours of a postcritical hermeneutics that both reduces the overemphasis on the objective dimension of work and brings its affective dimension back at the center of attention.
His research has contributed to the consolidation of a European orientation, especially through his involvement in the activities of EMMA, [3] to media organization studies. His initial work [4] presents media management less as a new academic discipline than as a multi-paradigm field of research that challenges the universalist approaches to management science. Hence his special interest for the place of ethics, CSR [5] and organizational identity [6] in managing media companies and entertainment businesses.
Drawing on various sources of continental philosophy his work highlights the fact that ethics in business cannot be taught or understood as any other management "knowledge". [7] In the Ancient Greece, the "oikonomos" was not only dedicated to take advantage of existing assets but also to master his/her self and to care for the society as a whole.
At the Collège international de philosophie, he developed a research program which aimed to extend the efforts made by researchers in order to discuss the commonly-held epistemic and political aspects of modern management. The program emphasized "the crisis of the foundations faced by management science in its ethical/philosophical aims", a crisis that can be defined as desaffectio societatis, and which seems to affect managers more and more. [8]
From an interpretation of Blaise Pascal and Paul Ricoeur’s analysis of power, he suggests new concepts to discuss the question of leadership responsibility, rethinking the usual way of considering it : practical wisdom, [9] skeptical humanism or "double thought". [10] It leads him to show that power cannot be separated from a dialectic of abilities and disabilities; this approach is at the root of several contributions about the strategic "vision" and gender issues using the works of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, [11] and about the beau geste as a critical behavior in organizations. [12]
In this field, he applies the notion of antiphilosophy as defined by Alain Badiou to a comparative philosophical analysis of Kierkegaard and Pascal. [13] He examines the unique position occupied by these two authors that he defines as an Antiphilosophy of Christianity in light of their idiosyncratic understanding of the relationship between faith and philosophical doubt. He also explores the connections between this position and more recent currents of thought, with particular reference to John Caputo, Gianni Vattimo and Michel Henry. This perspective is also largely discussed in his essay focusing on the idea of "beginning" in Lequier's philosophy [14]
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