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Works

The works presented here are part of the ongoing Readings of the World project. They offer a critical reading of the contemporary world from the perspective of social sciences, philosophy and anthropology, examining work, organizations, modern beliefs and contemporary forms of power.

Each book constitutes an autonomous exploration, but all of these publications participate in the same intellectual approach: to understand the social and symbolic mechanisms that structure our societies, to analyze the dominant evidence and to shed light on the tensions between rationality, culture and lived experience.

This page offers a concise overview of these works, accompanied by reference points to help understand their orientation, main themes and overall coherence.

Innovation versus tradition: Understanding and overcoming obstacles to change

This book explores resistance to change not as dysfunctions, but as profoundly human, cultural and identity-related phenomena.

Themes: innovation, traditions, resistance to change
Target audience: managers, decision-makers, change agents


→ Discover the book

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/linnovation-face-aux-traditions/80012?srsltid=AfmBOoo4n034o0Yr8uU0jS4_gFMXwtVlxMuJxZ7RcaSYntJxxfBlTLUa

The 8 keys to lasting success and fulfillment

A nuanced perspective on success, conceived as a process of inner and collective construction, far removed from contemporary performance imperatives. Themes: sustainable success, fulfillment, meaning

Target audience: general public, entrepreneurs, students

→ Discover the book

https://www.amazon.fr/Cl%C3%A9s-pour-R%C3%A9ussir-S%C3%89panouir-Durablement/dp/6208000777

The inhabited organization: Awakening the being, transforming management

A work that examines the organization not as a simple technical device, but as a lived space, traversed by subjectivities, tensions and quests for meaning.

Themes: critical management, subjectivity, organizational transformation
Target audience: researchers, practitioners, managers, students
→ Discover the book

https://www.leseditionsdunet.com/livre/lorganisation-habitee

The loneliness of the entrepreneur
A journey to the heart of an invisible failure

Presentation of the book

The figure of the entrepreneur is often associated with success, autonomy, and mastery. Yet, behind these dominant representations lies a very different reality: that of solitude, doubt, and the silent ordeal of failure.

This book offers an in-depth look at this rarely discussed experience. It explores entrepreneurial failure not as an individual failing, but as a social, psychological, and institutional phenomenon, produced by success standards that leave little room for human vulnerability.

Through a critical and embodied analysis, this book questions how our societies value performance while making invisible the broken paths, the silences and the suffering that accompany them.

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Essays and critical analyses of the contemporary world

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