OUTING ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSTS - SOME REFLECTIONS UPON PARKERS-TANTRUM

Parker (1995a) asks a fundamental question begged by the postmodern su spicion of modernist metanarratives: 'Critique in the Name of What?' H is discussion of this issue, in which a self-consciously ethical commi tment is advocated, is used in this paper as a springboard for further reflection upon the possibility of making the articulation and pursui t of ethico-political concerns central to the production of knowledge about organizing and organizations. Parker favours a humanist orientat ion, which respondents to his paper persuasively criticize for its vol untarism and subjectivism. In contrast, I commend a post-humanist (not anti-humanist) approach which suggests a way of retaining Parker's et hico-politico commitment without falling foul of the problems identifi ed by his critics.