Title: Nietzschean dissolution of the individual: foundations and implications for organisation theory

Authors: Norbert Lebrument

Addresses: Clermont Research Management (CleRMa), Clermont Auvergne School of Management, Clermont Auvergne University, 11 Boulevard Charles de Gaulle, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

Abstract: Organisation theory mobilises fundamental notions such as the individual in order to understand and explain the organisational phenomena it studies. However, this mobilisation is sometimes done without ever proceeding to a radical critical work in the Nietzschean sense of the foundations of this notion. By using the Nietzschean conception of the individual, the objective of this paper is precisely to expose the unthinkings that underlie the notion of the individual in order to draw out the contributions and implications for organisation theory. In this paper, we argue that the Nietzschean critique of the individual is an invitation for organisation theory research to consider every individual as embodying a plural identity.

Keywords: philosophy; epistemology; Nietzsche; organisation theory; organisational theories; critical analysis; individual; identity; fiction; individual as a plurality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2024.139332

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2024 Vol.17 No.3, pp.358 - 374

Received: 06 Jun 2023
Accepted: 10 Jun 2023
Published online: 01 Jul 2024 *

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