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The autopoiesis of the cold war: an evolutionary approach to international relations?
In: EUI working papers in political and social sciences, 92,23
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Resistance, Suffering and Leadership: An Introduction to Apophatic Leadership
The academic approach to leadership rests on a particular understanding of human action as goaloriented: leadership helps a group achieve a common, given goal or reward. One of the iconic historical figures that students of leadership never fail to present as an example, however, had a very different conception of human action. Mohandas Gandhi did not understand the orientation towards goals, outcomes or rewards as the essence of human action. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi emphasized that proper human action must not be preoccupied with its fruit, i.e. that we enact the fullness of our human nature precisely when our action, in a sense to be clarified, is disinterested. Gandhi's influence concerns the very attitudes that we adopt towards ourselves and our pursuit of goals. A discussion of Gandhi's reading of the Gita, and of the manner in which it informed key notions such as satyagraha, truth and non-violence, will suggest that to those that were drawn to him, Gandhi served the role of a touchstone, enabling others to ponder a "truer" and "better" version of themselves. If we wish to characterise his influence as "leadership", I propose to describe it as "apophatic leadership", which is "negative" in the sense that it enables us to detach ourselves from goals that hitherto were taken for granted.
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Eric Voegelin's New Science of Politics: A Reconsideration after Fifty Years - "Gnosis" in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy
In: The political science reviewer: an annual review of books, Band 34, S. 77-121
ISSN: 0091-3715
Die Auslagerung betrieblicher Basisinfrastrukturdienste für Informationstechnologien
In: Working papers 2004,14
The autopoiesis of administrative systems: Niklas Luhmann on public administration and public policy
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 417-440
ISSN: 0033-3298
Luhmanniaanse perspectieven op overheidsbestuur en -beleid
In: De sociologie van Niklas Luhmann; Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, Band 17, Heft 2
ISSN: 0777-883X