2 What Heidegger can offer critical leadership studies An ontological approach

Alice McCance Gibson, Michelle Greenwood, Julie Wolfram Cox, and Justin Oakley

DOI: 10.4324/9781003363125-3

Our aim in writing this chapter is to demonstrate a way to utilize the richness of Heidegger's philosophy to shed light on the everyday lived experience of leadership. Critical leadership (CL) scholars frequently take as their starting point for analysis a departure from the dominant, “scientifically rational” approach to leadership that assumes a realist ontology and related epistemology; that is, one that assumes an objective and universal “truth”. Instead, CL scholars often propose and/or employ more “interpretive” or “relational” approaches to explore ...

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