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Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: Introduction

In: Art and Aesthetics at Work

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  • Adrian Carr
  • Philip Hancock

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In the Preface to this volume we indicated that the chapters are grouped in terms of common themes. In Part I of the volume, art and aesthetics are examined as a way of knowing organization. What is intended here is to reveal how a discourse informed by art and aesthetics may help pave the way to an epistemological framework within which studies of work and its organization may gain a greater sensitivity to the noncognitive, non-rationalized dimension of everyday organizational experience. Moreover, considering the heuristic potential that art and the realm of aesthetics may offer the fields of organization studies and management practice, also affords us an opportunity to reconsider the forms of ‘logic’ that we have employed in these fields. Art and aesthetics present us with a different way of knowing and understanding of human existence and experience and potentially may serve to alert us to what we have missed in our past theorizing of the fields. The chapters in this part of the volume highlight this heuristic potential.

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  • Adrian Carr & Philip Hancock, 2003. "Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adrian Carr & Philip Hancock (ed.), Art and Aesthetics at Work, chapter 1, pages 3-6, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-55464-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230554641_1
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    1. Melissa Tyler & Adrian Wilkinson, 2007. "The tyranny of corporate slenderness: `corporate anorexia' as a metaphor for our age," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 21(3), pages 537-549, September.

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