Das reine Selbst, die Kausalität des Begriffs und die Zeit

Waibel, Violetta L.; Motta, Giuseppe; Thiel, Udo

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“…Similar to Descartes and Hume, Kant comprehends the self as connected to the process of reasoning and thinking and he considers that the phenomenon of self-consciousness emerges through the process of thinking. However, recent interpretations show that, beyond consciousness, Kant's understanding of subjectivity emphasises selfdetermination, which pre-supposes a free will (Klemm 2017;Waibel 2017). Indeed, Kant (1787) conceives of the self ('eigentliches Selbst') in relation to freedom, in a positive sense, that is, the autonomy of pure, practical reason ('reine, praktische Vernunft'), rather than independence from material, exterior constraints.…”

Section: Philosophical Presumptions Thinking the Self As Modern Subjectmentioning

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“…Accordingly, being capable of freedom in an empirical world of manifold influences and social bonds entails an act of self-identification, a relatedness to the self and to the world. In a Kantian sense, identity and experiences constitute and condition one another, as the continuous change in the empirical world is reflected in relation to the consciousness of one's own identity (Waibel, 2017). However, even if Kant supports that one is conscious of the self ('Bewusstsein seiner selbst') and of one's existence through thinking, he suggests that it is unreachable to think how oneself exists: 'dass ich mir meiner selbst […] bewusst bin, dass ich bin, aber nicht, wie ich existiere' (Kant KrV B158, cited by Klemme, 2017: 265).…”

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Creating and Dissolving ‘Identity’ in Global Mobility Studies: A Multi-scalar Inquiry of Belongingness and Becoming On-the-move

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An increasingly diverse, highly qualified global workforce and the emergence of non-conformist, self-directed transnational pathways compel to question the prevalent comprehension of professional and personal identities. For centuries, modern conceptualisations of ‘the self’ and ‘identity’ have been fostered alongside individualist theories and nation state logics. However, as contemporary ‘movers’ lead their professional and personal lives across a plurality of social fields and locations, sedentarist metaphysics inhibit the apprehension of the ‘mobile self’. Enhanced boundary-crossing professional moves, when recurrent and self-directed, i.e., when not initiated, steered and controlled by employers, entail major epistemological challenges and spark ontological interrogations, which remain to be addressed in management and organisation studies. Whilst ‘global mobility’ and the attraction and retention of highly qualified employees constitute a strategic endeavour for employing organisations, the term ‘migration’ describes macro-economic and foremost political manifestations of the same phenomenon: geographical human movement. Despite distinct taxonomies, economic affairs and state affairs are increasingly intertwined when it comes to the attraction and retention of so-called ‘global talent’. In an attempt to address these late modern complexities, the author demonstrates how ascribed analytical and administrative categorisations that designate professional ‘movers’ diverge from lived experience and self-identifications. A conceptual essay and three interconnected, but independent empirical studies demonstrate how post-structuralist methods, such as discourse analysis, evocative writing and non-representational interpretation, allow for new insights on mobile ways of belonging and becoming: normative, ascribed categorisations appear to be constitutive for the social creation of difference in ‘destination countries’; the collapse of the shared imaginary of mobility during the pandemic composes ephemeral and affective ways of belonging beyond traditional structures of the workplace; singular ‘moments’ of mobile lives that are narrated as ‘liberating’ or ‘revelatory’ allow to take a glimpse at the intensities of becoming on the move. By allowing for the pragmatist inquiry to evolve around the phenomena of mobility as such, the here-developed approach contributes not only to global mobility studies in the field of management and organisation, but also to the mobilities and migration nexus more broadly. Together, the four core elements of this thesis provide openings for theorising the ‘mobile self’ beyond monolithic identities and human capitalist logic.

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Section: Philosophical Presumptions Thinking the Self As Modern Subjectmentioning

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Creating and Dissolving ‘Identity’ in Global Mobility Studies: A Multi-scalar Inquiry of Belongingness and Becoming On-the-move

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Das reine Selbst, die Kausalität des Begriffs und die Zeit

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