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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

A Critique of Heroic Efficacy

Författare

  • Hervé Corvellec

Redaktör

  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

This chapter questions the rallying cry that ‘waste is a resource’ through the lens of François Jullien’s critique of efficacy. Focusing on the waste hierarchy, the lean movement, and the circular economy, it shows that viewing waste as a resource privileges a heroic mode of action based on ideals, means and ends, and intended outcomes. Contrasting ancient Greek and Chinese philosophies, Jullien contrasts this proactive approach, which defines efficacy as the ability to solve problems and achieve goals, with an anti-heroic focus on immanence, situational circumstances, and transformations. This contrast leads to a critique of the overconfidence currently placed in heroic efficacy. Heroic efficacy appears as a conservative posture that supports the dominant social order and deflects fitting social critique. But the Anthropocene epitomizes the need to re-evaluate current confidence in heroic efficacy and to seek non-heroic approaches.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2025-02-10

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

169-190

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Waste as a Critique

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • Waste
  • Heroism
  • Efficacy
  • François Jullien
  • Anthropocene

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9780198907077
  • ISBN: 9780198907046