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The major innovations which have occurred between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century represent a fresh challenge to the responsibility of innovators. Innovators have disrupted, and continue to disrupt the world through the growth of technology, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, the management of large databases, different forms of intrusion into our private lives, etc. It is up to them take full responsibility for their actions, and question what they are accomplishing, why they are accomplishing it, to what end and with what means. Such questionings are those found in a practice conducted by Ancient philosophers: spiritual exercises. These were internal or external discourses, enabling individuals to act, think, to know how to behave and how to master oneself. It is surely toward these practices innovators of today should turn in order to innovate with wisdom.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
    1. I.1. Critical philosophy of innovation and the innovator
    2. I.2. (Re)thinking innovation through philosophy
  5. 1 The Need to (Re)think Innovation
    1. 1.1. The innovation context: how far to innovate?
    2. 1.2. The innovation discipline
    3. 1.3. Attempting to expose innovation, the importance of philosophy
    4. 1.4. Philosophy as therapy
    5. 1.5. Towards a thoughtful innovator
  6. 2 The Non-standard Philosophy for Thinking Innovation
    1. 2.1. Questioning philosophy
    2. 2.2. What is non-standard philosophy?
    3. 2.3. Using non-standard philosophy as a tool to (re)think innovation
    4. 2.4. (Re)thinking innovation, a non-standard innovation?
    5. 2.5. “Invent philosophy!”, let’s invent innovation
  7. 3 A Phenomenology of Innovation
    1. 3.1. Passing through phenomenology
    2. 3.2. What is phenomenology?
    3. 3.3. Husserlian phenomenology to think innovation?
    4. 3.4. Phenomenology as praxis
    5. 3.5. Being aware of innovations
  8. 4 Spiritual Exercises to (Re)think the Innovator
    1. 4.1. The need for spiritual exercises
    2. 4.2. Urgency of the spiritual exercises
    3. 4.3. The spiritual innovator of the 21st Century
  9. Conclusion
    1. C.1. The latest news on innovation in contemporary space
    2. C.2. Philosophy, the ultimate assistance for innovation
    3. C.3. Three philosophies for two paths
    4. C.4. (Re)thinking innovation through teaching
    5. C.5. (Re)thinking innovation beyond the West
  10. References
  11. Index of Names
  12. Index of Notions
  13. End User License Agreement
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