i. Profiles, Persons, andProfiles, Persons, and Professional Judgment in the Age of AI.
KiTalent Annuals in Research on Executive Search · Volume I bis · MMXXVI , published by KiTalent Research, 2026.
Executive Search as Erfahrung is the second part of a philosophical diptych. Where the first book asked what generative AI is as a phenomenon of language, this one asks what professional judgment is, and why representation has become faster than understanding.
The governing term is Erfahrung: not the lived event, but the formative undergoing through which a subject is changed by what resists first understanding. A trace can be processed; a person must be encountered. The central case is senior executive search , narrow enough to remain concrete, broad enough to disclose a general structure of professional judgment. Its object is not a detachable skill set but a person in relation to a possible organizational world.
Across an introduction, twelve chapters, and a coda, the book builds its account from the German tradition of experience (Kant, Hegel, Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Gadamer, Stiegler, Rosa), the Aristotelian inheritance of phronesis, and the hermeneutics of formation, then applies them to the candidate, the senior encounter, and the defence of the formation pathways that AI-led assessment threatens to short-circuit.
