Does the notion of sovereignty in Georges Bataille (1897-1962) shed light on suicides at work?

La notion de souveraineté chez Georges Bataille (1897-1962) éclaire-t-elle les suicides au travail ?

François de March ()
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François de March: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

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Abstract: Georges Bataille's conception of sovereignty implies an anthropological characteristic, that of being beyond utility and beyond necessity. Conversely, for Bataille, work transforms men into things and removes them from sovereignty. Is sovereignty destroyed by contemporary work? Are the rapidly increasing suicides at work a tragic outcome aimed at recovering lost intimacy? The purpose of this article is to ask whether the notion of sovereignty allows us to give an anthropological meaning to the main explanatory theories of work-related suicides.

Keywords: Suicides; Suicides at work; Sacrifices; Work; Georges Bataille; Sovereignty; : Georges Bataille; Souveraineté; Suicides au travail; Travail. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-08-22
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2022, 2022/4 (N° 305), p. 79-101. ⟨10.3166/rfg.305.79-102⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.305.79-102

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