These images of prayer are included as a symbol of gratitude, humility, and reflection.

Acknowledgements

I’m grateful to these people for shaping my analytical approach to behavior, organizations, and life:

• Alfonso Gambardella, Professor of Technology Strategy

• Bart van Heerikhuizen, Sociologist

• Bart Vanneste, Professor of Strategy 

• Birgul Arslan, Professor of Innovation Strategy

• Carl Kock, Professor of Corporate Strategy

• Cristina Bicchieri, Social Psychologist

• Dave Owens, Professor of Management & Innovation

• Dave Ward, Philosopher

• Frank Schilbach, Economist

• Jon Stewart, Philosopher

• Jonathan Gruber, Economist

• Kathleen Bawn, Political Scientist

• Michael S. Roth, Historian

• Michael Sandel, Political Philosopher

• Miguel A. Centeno, Sociologist

• Scott Plous, Social Psychologist

• Susan Sauvé Meyer, Philosopher

Dead People

• Georgy Shchedrovitsky, System Thinker

• Gordon Pask, Cybernetician

• Heinz von Foerster, Cybernetician

• Jakob Johann von Uexküll, Biosemetician

• Russell L. Ackoff, Operational System Thinker

• Stafford Beer, Management Cybernetician

Many other people through history -800 BCE- Now.

For some people

• I stand in the footsteps of many traditions.

• Many, really many other people not named here (because this list would be very long).

• My Phenomenology of The Life-world as Given-in-The-One is based on the works of 

  • The Philosophers Peter Abelard, Mikhail Bakhtin, Bruno Bauer, Henri Bergson, George Berkeley, Ned Block, Maurice Blondel, Jakob Böhme, F. H. Bradley, Robert Brandom, Maine de Biran, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Emil Cioran, Andy Clark, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Victor Cousin, Benedetto Croce, Donald Davidson, Dōgen, Meister Eckhart, Brian David Ellis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marsilio Ficino, J. G. Fichte, Philippa Foot, Hans-Georg Gadamer, José Ortega y Gasset, Raymond Geuss, Giovanni Gentile, Jürgen Habermas, Norwood Russell Hanson, Donna Haraway, Johann Georg Hamann, Heraclitus, Johann Gottfried Herder, William Ernest Hocking, Axel Honneth, George Holmes Howison, Yuk Hui, Shelly Kagan, Ludwig Klages, Christine Korsgaard, Susanne Langer, Louis Lavelle, G.W. Leibniz, John Locke, Peter Lombard, Maimonides, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Marshall McLuhan, Iris Murdock, Liam Murphy, Onora O'Neill, Helmuth Plessner, Gemistos Plethon, H. H. Price, Hilary Putnam, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Louis Arnaud Reid, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Franz Rosenzweig, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Josiah Royce, Michael Sandel, T. M. Scanlon, F. W. J. Schelling, Arthur Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza, Raimo Tuomela, Giambattista Vico, Cornel West, A. N. Whitehead, Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming; 

    • The Diagnosticians Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Jean Baudrillard, Byung-Chul Han, Jacques Derrida, Réne Descartes, Mark Fisher, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Hadot, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, U. G. Krishnamurti, François Laruelle, G. E. Moore, Thomas Nagel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Parmenides of Elea, Plato, Plotinus, Willard Van Orman Quine, Charles Taylor, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Susan R. Wolf and Slavoj Žižek;

    • The Dignitarians Theodor W. Adorno, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Walter Benjamin, Boethius, Butler, Albert Camus, Virginia Held, Max Horkheimer, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Herbert Marcuse, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Martha Nussbaum, Christine de Pizan, Socrates and Simone Weil;

    • The Enricherists Simone de Beauvoir, Émile Boutroux, Edmund Burke, Cicero, Gilles Deleuze, Sextus Empiricus, Epicurus, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Félix Guattari, G. W. F. Hegel and Max Stirner;

    • The Generatorists Frank Cameron Jackson, Sally Haslanger and Richard Rorty;

    • The Intentionalists Franz Brentano, Rudolf Steiner, Alexius Meinong and Kazimierz Twardowski;

    • The Scholastics Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Anselm of Canterbury, William of Ockham, Duns Scotus and Porphyry of Tyre;

    • The Signist C.S. Peirce;

    • The Analytical Philosophers G. E. M. Anescombe, J. L. Austin, A. J. Ayer, Bernard Bolzano, Rudolf Carnap, Gottlob Frege, Peter Geach, John Rawls, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, John Searle, Peter Singer and Ludwig Wittgenstein;

    • The Phenomenologists Nikolaas Cassidy Deketelaere, Shaun Gallagher, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Roman Ingarden, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul R. Mann, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Luc Marion, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Adolf Reinach, Paul Ricœur, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Scheler, Alfred Schütz, Eidth Stein and Dan Zahavi;

    • The Political Economists Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Karl Marx, J.S. Mil, Joseph Schumpeter and Adam Smith;

    • The Vedists Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi;

  • The Anthropologists Gregory Bateson, Mircea Eliade, Clifford Geertz, David Graeber, and Bronisław Malinowski; 

  • The Biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen; 

  • The Biosemiotician Jakob Johann von Uexküll;

  • The Business Theorist W. Edwards Deming; 

  • The Cognitive Scientists David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett; 

  • The Cybernetician Stafford Beer and Heinz von Foerster; 

  • The Economists Milton Friedmam, Friedrich Hayek, Carl Menger, George Stigler and Friedrich von Wieser;

  • The Educational Theoretician Ravindra H. Dave; 

  • The Historians Plutarch and Alexis de Tocqueville; 

  • The International Relations Theorists Michael Nathan Barnett, Edward Hallett Carr, Martha Finnemore, John Mearsheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, Alexander Wendt, Yan Xuetong and Qin Yaqing ;

  • The Linguists Deborah Cameron and Roman Jakobson; 

  • The Literary Theorists Hélène Cixous and Edward Said;

  • The Neurologists Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov; 

  • The Organisational Theoreticians Chris Argyris, Richard Cyer, James March and Donald Schön; 

  • The Poet Hesiod;

  • The Political Theorists Hannah Arendt, Guy Debord, Vladmir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Achille Mbembe, Carl Schmitt and Mao Zedong; 

  • The Psychiatrists Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Frantz Fanon, Karl Jaspers, Carl Jung and Jacques Lacan; 

  • The Psychologists Lorin Anderson, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Mary Whiton Calkins, Erich Fromm, Daniel Kahneman, David R. Krathwohl, Timothy Leary and Abraham Maslow;

  • The Semiotician Roland Barthes;

  • The Sociologists Pierre Bourdieu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Henri Lefebvre, Talcott Parsons, Hartmut Rosa and Max Weber;

  • The Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich;

  • The Writers Aleister Crowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, Frederik van Eeden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Betty Friedan, Rebecca Goldstein, Jack Halberstam, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Ted Kaczynski, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Audre Lorde, Robert M. Pirsig, Voltaire, McKenzie Wark, Alan Watts, Robert Anton Wilson and Virginia Woolf;

• • This framework enables a person to analyse their life-world on three interconnected levels—individual, intersubjective, and societal—so that they can see how these phenomena articulate the universal structure of the life-world, while still recognising the singularity of each human life.

    • Topics like Acting, Behaviour, Being, Body, Capital, Consciousness, Desire, Divine, Emotion, Friendship, Knowing, Meaning, Organisation, Labour, Language, Love, Needs, Personhood, Power, Gender, God, Identity, Justice, Law, Morality, Recognition, Science, Sexuality, Social Liberty, Spirit, Symbols, Time, Value and Will.