To Kill the King : Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy.
Title:
To Kill the King : Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy.
Author:
Farmer, David John.
ISBN:
9781317453567
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Thinking as Play -- What Is Post-Traditional Thinking? -- 1. Start with Plato: Playing -- 2. More Play: Like a Gadfly? -- 3. Self and Detritus -- 4. Writing, with a Deviant Signature -- 5. Listen to Symbols -- 6. Truth: Skepticism, Certainly -- II. Justice as Seeking -- What Is Post-Traditional Justice? -- 7. Start with Shakespeare: O Cursed Legacy! -- 8. Justice Systems: More in Heaven and Earth? -- 9. Self, with Style -- 10. Other and Hesitation -- 11. Tradition: Golden Ruling -- 12. Other Traditions: Silver Ruling -- III. Practice as Art -- What Is Post-Traditional Practice? -- 13. Start with Michelangelo: What I, a Bureaucrat, Expect -- 14. Visible Hand: Cult of the Leader -- 15. Invisible Hand: Unexamined Rhetoric -- 16. A Nun and Barbed Wire -- 17. Love and Mere Efficiency -- 18. To Kill the King, and "Good and No Places" -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts - thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any professor (whether in the post-modern camp or not) who wants to expose students to fresh challenges and insights.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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