Heidegger

Robin Holt and Mike Zundel

Chapter 1.16 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 67-71 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Heidegger uses, dissects and forges language to unsettle the idea that we humans can somehow use linguistic representations to look upon and manage practices. In truth, practices manage us; we are always and only in the world, never above it. His early work ponders how we may conceive an authentic existence when, being ‘in-the-world’ we have neither control ‘over’ things, nor a view from above. Later he turns to the question of technology, whose pervasiveness he sees as aggravating the possibility for authenticity even further, because as it mediates the relations of practice it reduces them to a condition of instrumentality: objects can only appear as a means in the service of ends, and ends are only ‘in view’ as means to yet further ends, without purpose. Strategy scholarship may find in Heidegger's critique of technology a bitter, yet fruitful diet, one which readily counteracts the fantasies of progress and control that are woven deeply into strategy practice and theory.

Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Being-in-the-world; Equipmentality; Temporality; Technology; Calculation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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