ABSTRACT
The Carnegie Reports investigate cases of management education in innovative US business school classrooms. Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello compare European management textbooks and Andreas Reckwitz suggests that a hegemony of aesthetics makes those connected to economic activities engage in art, fashion, design, architecture and the affective creation of atmospheres. From outside management scholarship, they all observe how scholars seem engaged in themes like play, critique, artistry and aesthetics. Play, critique, artistry and aesthetics are fields where the reality of management is taking place. 'Speculative realism' is a term advanced by some philosophers as a non-transcendental metaphysic of objects with many affinities back to well-known European phenomenology and existentialism as well as long forgotten management philosophies such as the praxeological reism of Tadeusz Kotarbinski. Harman defends the Socratic definition of philosophy as 'the love of truth' rather than 'finding truth'.
