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Leadership: The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot

In: Fictional Leaders

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  • Hugo Letiche
  • Jean-Luc Moriceau

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Blanchot’s The Madness of the Day shows that when we have to make sense of experience, we inevitably distance ourselves from the raw, naïve openness of the event. This is something we all know and it is a process that fiction (as well as a great deal of management literature) implicitly tries to deny by evoking a meaningfulness-in-itself that does not refer to lived processes of relatedness. Based on Blanchot, we go here a step further, claiming that leadership is an iconic exemplar of this process. Like narrative itself, leadership is inherently connected to the glorification of accountability, purposefulness and goal-directed orientations. In so far as this is so, leadership is quite mad.

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  • Hugo Letiche & Jean-Luc Moriceau, 2013. "Leadership: The Madness of the Day by Maurice Blanchot," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fictional Leaders, chapter 11, pages 166-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27275-1_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137272751_12
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    1. Madeleine Besson & Philippe Jacquinot & Rémi Jardat & Jean-Luc Moriceau, 2023. "Escaping transparent, asymmetrical and agentive accountability? Entrepreneurial accounts and researchers' countertransference," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 36(7/8), pages 1790-1813, April.

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