Agon, czyli biblijny Jakub i Harold Bloom przeciw teorii empowermentu

Abstract

Agon: Jacob the Patriarch and Harold Bloom against the empowermentThe paper discusses the question of empowerment in management education and attempts to present internal contradictions of aforementioned concept. The main objection to the empowermet theory in management education here is the fact of concealing fundamental violence that defi nes relations within institution of academy. Removal of the question of confl ict from the concept of empowerment deprives it from real emancipating power. In contrast to empowerment, Harol Bloom’s idea of subjectivity as an agon is presented