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The Political Corporation: Carl Schmitt and Business Ethics

The Political Corporation: Carl Schmitt and Business Ethics

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The Political Corporation: Carl Schmitt and Business Ethics

Bart Jansen

Business & Economics / Business Ethics

This book critically explores the transformation of business ethics from a reflective moral practice into a domain shaped by legal compliance and political power. Bridging legal theory, political philosophy, and corporate studies, it examines how ethics is both depoliticized through juridification and politicized through corporate sovereignty. Drawing on Carl Schmitt’s concepts of political antagonism and sovereignty, the book challenges liberal frameworks and calls for a renewed, politically engaged understanding of business ethics. This book is of interest to scholars and students of business ethics, legal theory, political philosophy, corporate governance, critical legal studies, and political theology.

Bart Jansen is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy and Ethics at Nyenrode Business University and the University of Amsterdam. From 2023 to 2025, he was affiliated with New York University’s Department of Philosophy. Since spring 2022, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Legal Philosophy at Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia, and, since 2025, as Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance at Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo, Suriname.


Publication Date: 20 August 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Imprint: Springer
ISBN-13: 9783032300218
Format: Paperback / softback
Page Count: 82

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