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This paper introduces the notion of organisational wisdom. While wisdom has been largely neglected in the management literature, there appears to be an increasing interest in wisdom and its practical application across a wide range of disciplines. A small, but growing number of writings drawing on the ancient wisdom traditions such as Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, and discussions of spirituality and soul in the workplace indicate that that the hard edge of management is softening to holistic and philosophical considerations. Facets of wise thought and action are central to burgeoning disciplines such as business ethics, sustainability, transformational leadership, corporate citizenship and social responsibility, and workplace democratisation. Built on the principles and practices of organisational learning and knowledge management, but surpassing them in their ability to foster learning, understanding, commitment, and "doing the right thing," organisational wisdom provides an aim worth striving for. This paper identifies and explains important elements of organisational wisdom, and describes their interaction as a dynamic, complex system. Understanding this system illuminates causes of organisational learning problems, permits targeting key sticking points and levers for change, and suggests strategies for more effective learning and the achievement of important performance outcomes.

"Martin Jay reflects on the Frankfurt School's legacy, turning the school's practice of "immanent critique" in on itself, applying critical pressure on a number of its own ideas to probe for their contradictory impulses. He unearths and examines the pathologization of political deviance through stigmatizing "authoritarian personalities," the undefended theological premises of Walter Benjamin's work, and the ambivalence of its members' analyses of anti-Semitism and Zionism. Additional questions include the advocacy of a politics based on a singular notion of the truth"--

1. Against consolation : Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn -- 2. Peace in our time -- 3. Fathers and sons : Jan Phillip Reemtsma and the Frankfurt School -- 4. The ungrateful dead -- 5. When did the Holocaust end? Reflections on historical objectivity -- 6. The conversion of the rose -- 7. Pen pals with the unicorn killer -- 8. Kwangju : from massacre to Biennale -- 9. Must justice be blind? The challenge of images to the law -- 10. Diving into the wreck : aesthetic spectatorship at the turn of the millennium -- 11. Astronomical hindsight : the speed of light and the virtualization of reality -- 12. Returning the gaze : the American response to the French critique of ocularcentrism -- 13. Lafayette's children : the American reception of French liberalism -- 14. Somaesthetics and democracy : John Dewey and body art -- 15. The paradoxes of religious violence -- 16. Fearful symmetries : September llth and the agonies of the left.

Fin de Siècle Socialism , originally published in 1988, demonstrates the lively potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. Martin Jay discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story, for the first time, of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters. In particular, The Education of John Dewey highlights the importance of the women in Dewey's life, especially his mother, wife, and daughters, but also others, including the reformer Jane Addams and the novelist Anzia Yezierska. A fitting tribute to a master thinker, Martin has rendered a tour de force portrait of a philosopher and social activist in full, seamlessly reintegrating Dewey's thought into both his personal life and the broader historical themes of his time.