Business Ethics: A European Review 22 (4):404-416 (2013)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
In the philosophy of Alain Badiou, ethics can only arise in relation to an evental truth procedure that breaks from the economic logic of a situation. Further, because for Badiou there cannot be economic truths per se – rather, economic matters must be understood in their relation to one or more truths in the domain of love, art, science or politics – a Badiouian business ethics would look entirely distinct from any ethics that simply places limits on certain kinds of economic activity. Although Slavoj Žižek, among others, has suggested that this marks an essential weakness in Badiou's economic/political theory, it may actually be the greatest strength of his position. Within a capitalist system, a Badiouian business ethics would then be a question of mobilizing economic resources in order to serve the ongoing construction of a truth procedure. For a business to be considered ethical on Badiou's terms, it must break – and continue to break – from the dominant logic of capitalism and its merely economic pursuit of profit maximization
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.1111/beer.12032 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977.Michel Foucault - 1980 - Vintage.
Elements of the Philosophy of Right.Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel - 1991 - Cambridge University Press.
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International.Jacques Derrida - 1994 - Routledge.
View all 27 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
The Virtue of Participatory Governance: A MacIntyrean Alternative to Shareholder Maximization.Caleb Bernacchio & Robert Couch - 2015 - Business Ethics: A European Review 24 (S2):130-143.
“Oh! Teleworking!” Regimes of Engagement and the Lived Experience of Female Spanish Teleworkers.Ana Gálvez, Francisco Tirado & Jose M. Alcaraz - 2020 - Business Ethics: A European Review 29 (1):180-192.
A Nietzschean Re‐Evaluation of Values as a Way of Re‐Imagining Business Ethics.Payman Tajalli & Steven Segal - 2019 - Business Ethics: A European Review 28 (2):234-242.
Heroic Business ‘Ethics’.John Dobson & Eleanor Helms - 2014 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 33 (2-3):131-146.
Similar books and articles
Integrative Economic Ethics: Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy.Peter Ulrich - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.
Economic Efficiency: A Paradigm for Business Ethics. [REVIEW]John Stieber & Patrick Primeaux - 1991 - Journal of Business Ethics 10 (5):335 - 339.
Profit Maximization: The Ethical Mandate of Business. [REVIEW]Patrick Primeaux & John Stieber - 1994 - Journal of Business Ethics 13 (4):287 - 294.
Economic Ethics and Institutional Change.Antonio Argandoña - 2004 - Journal of Business Ethics 53 (1-2):191-201.
Economics, Ethics and Business Ethics: A Critique of Interrelationships.Praveen Kulshreshtha - 2007 - International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 3 (1):33-41.
Business Ethics in Theory and Practice: Diagnostic Notes A. A Prescription for Value. [REVIEW]Edward J. Welch - 1997 - Journal of Business Ethics 16 (3):309-313.
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?Amartya Sen - 1993 - Business Ethics Quarterly 3 (1):45-54.
Global Business Ethical Perspectives on Capitalism, Finance and Corporate Responsibility: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. [REVIEW]G. J. Rossouw - 2012 - Asian Journal of Business Ethics 1 (1):63-72.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2013-09-16
Total views
26 ( #436,533 of 2,498,997 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
3 ( #210,368 of 2,498,997 )
2013-09-16
Total views
26 ( #436,533 of 2,498,997 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
3 ( #210,368 of 2,498,997 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads