Foucault on Leadership: The Leader as Subject

by Nathan Harter

Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for leadership, a person must undergo processes of subjectivation, which is simply the way that a person becomes a Subject. From this perspective, an aspiring leader first becomes a Subject who happens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138644595
• ISBN13: 9781138644595
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"