1st Edition

Foucault on Leadership The Leader as Subject

By Nathan Harter Copyright 2016
140 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for leadership, a person must undergo processes of subjectivation, which is simply the way that a person becomes a Subject. From this perspective,... Read more

Introduction. 1. 1981-82 2. 1982-83 3. 1983-84 4. Parresia in the Twentieth Century: Solzhenitsyn 5. Subjectivation in the Twenty-First Century: the U.S. Military 6. Closing the Distance

Biography

Nathan W. Harter is Professor of Leadership and American Studies and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Christopher Newport University, USA.