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Bento da Silva, Jose A. (2012) The organising principles of the society of Jesus - from the pastorate to governmentality. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Foucault’s concepts of Pastoral power and “governmentality” have led to the
development of the London school of “governmentalists” (McKinlay and Pezet
2010). However, extant literature on governmentality drawn from this school of
thought has undertaken an analytics of power centred on the deployment of
governmental forms of power at the State level, not taking into consideration another
entity that emerged after modernity, the modern enterprise, and not going beyond the
19th century, thereby trapping “governmentality” studies inside their own modern
discourse.
Following Foucault’s established relation between Pastoral power and
“governmentality”, this thesis analyses the form of organising deployed by an
organisation that emerged in the 16th century, apparently being able to survive into
modernity without adopting modern managerial business categories. This
organisation is the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits.
The first part of this thesis will analyse the relevance of the Society of Jesus for
organisational studies and will show how modern business categories fail to explain
its structural resilience. The second part of the thesis introduces Pastoral power as a
possible explanation for the apparent structural resilience of the Society of Jesus.
Following this line of reasoning, and after having established an analytics of power
as a possible methodological framework, the Society of Jesus’ “organising practices” will be presented, leading to the conclusion that this entity, having emerged at the
cornerstone of modernity, deployed practices that represent a significant shift when
compared with previous Pastoral forms of organising. The fact that the Society of
Jesus clearly intended to deploy practices for the conduction of geographicallydispersed
individuals leads to the conclusion that it deployed a “protogovernmental”
form of power, and that the rationality underpinning its practices, although not
entirely modern, is clearly at the cornerstone of modernity and can therefore be
enlightening to an understanding of how modern managerial categories might have
emerged.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Jesuits -- Clergy, Jesuits -- Government, Organization, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- History and criticism | ||||
Official Date: | March 2012 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Hoskin, Keith; Llewellyn, Nick | ||||
Extent: | 294 leaves. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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