Visual: looking at organization

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    Abstract

    The philosophical significance of the visual extends beyond a consideration of the sense impressions from our eyes or an analysis of what we can see. Since the enlightenment, we claim that ‘seeing is believing’ and position sight as the primary way in which we engage with the world – in first-world ‘Western’ society at least (Berger, 1972). Thus the visual determines reality, becomes an arbiter of truth and is presumed to be the bedrock of valid knowledge far more than other sense data (Kavanagh, 2014). To investigate the visual is to ask how the very structure of human experience is organized.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies
    EditorsRaza Mir, Hugh Willmott, Michelle Greenwood
    PublisherRoutledge
    Chapter55
    Pages584-591
    Number of pages8
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9780203795248
    ISBN (Print)9780415702867, 9781134466016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2015

    Publication series

    NameRoutledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting
    PublisherRoutledge

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