Joint Action: Essays in Honour of John Shotter

ISBN-13: 9780815360667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Opis

This comprehensive volume brings together fourteen international scholars to reflect on the relevance of John Shotter’s work for emerging concerns in 21^st century social science. Showcasing the breadth of his ideas, the book presents a contemporary exploration of Shotter’s influence across a wide range of disciplinary fields, substantive topics and practical endeavours.

Spis treści

1. Refracting Shotter  2. John Shotter, uniqueness and poetics: Parallels with Ernst Cassirer  3. "Images of ‘Man’": One revolution around another (in roughly forty winks)  4. Well, err; actually…: John’s battle with language and certainty  5. Critique, construction and confluence: Journeying with John Shotter  6. The ethics of relational process: John Shotter’s Radical Presence  7. On being good researchers: Virtue, sympathetic co-experience and polyphonic unmasking  8. With feeling  9. Responsive improvisation: The shape of emergent dialogue  10. The power of the particular: Notes for an organisational science of singularities  11. Twenty-one words that made a difference: Shifting paradigms  12. Suppose Shotter had not read Dreyfus?  13. Anticipating hope  14. Constructing goes live: Soft self/other differentiation, sound processes and legein  15.  John Shotter’s contribution to a better way