Emmanuel Jaffelin

About Emmanuel Jaffelin

What if you adopted the management of kindness? Refusing cynicism, authoritarianism, meanness, aggression, predation, short-term goals, and financialization, philosopher Emmanuel Jaffelin advocates for a new form of management: that of kindness. In his “Little Philosophy of the Company,” Emmanuel Jaffelin calls for a departure from management by fear and places the company at the heart of our societies. Employees must also change and achieve a true psychological revolution. Why not imagine, create, invent a French way of working? Many companies are already seeking his expertise and philosophical consulting perspective on their projects and the contemporary political, social, and societal reality. In February 2014, he published an Apology of Punishment with Plon. Rich in references to great philosophers and sociologists such as Lévi-Strauss, this essay restores meaning to the notion of responsibility, both individual and collective, which has been too overshadowed today by “the ideology of victimhood”: “our democracies have shifted from a conception of the citizen as a responsible person to that of a potential victim.” And assuming oneself to be a victim dispenses one from knowing oneself as responsible. The epigraph gives us food for thought because while everyone knows the proverb “He who loves well punishes well,” we can also affirm that “hell is the absence of punishment.” A philosophy professor, Emmanuel Jaffelin currently teaches at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux. In addition to his teaching activities, he has been a diplomat in Latin America and Africa.