Organizational Research

4Heidegger’s Revision of Hegelian Dialectic and Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory

I am finding that the only way to understand storytelling, with Heideggerian ontology, is to be a blacksmith.¹ Blacksmithing is a qualitative-multiplicity “of the highest generic concepts” (Heidegger, 1962: 3), which is why there are so many blacksmith examples in Heidegger (Boje, 2014). The history of blacksmithing and the history of ontology are intertwined, from before Aristotle and Plato, to Kant, Hegel, Marx—blacksmiths were the mechanical entrepreneurs, inventors of the first wagon makers, first automobile producers, and even forging spacecraft creations. Recently, ORM has declared storytelling ontology to be unnecessary to positive scientific methods ...