Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Story of Politics -- Chapter 1: The Autocracy, Condition of Creativity -- 1 Philosophical Argument: The Paradox of Liberty -- 2 Power and Architecture -- 3 The Potential of Power -- 4 The Construction of the Autocracy -- 5 The Strategy of the Autocrat -- 6 The Principles of the Autocracy -- 7 The Invisible Government -- 8 Producing Institutions -- 9 Movement Among Institutions -- 10 Politics Versus Government -- 11 The Exercise of Authority -- 12 The Autocrat and His Associates: The Distant Intimacy -- 13 The Government and Its Personnel: Disjunctions and Discontinuities -- 14 The Chaos of Power -- Chapter 2: The Court, Locus of Creativity -- 1 Philosophical Argument: The Few and the Many -- 2 Two Tales and Two Stages -- 3 The Field of Political Creativity -- 4 A Phenomenon of Politics That Defies Numbers -- 5 A Phenomenon of Politics to Be Studied in Its Mode of History -- Section 1: The Reality That Is History -- Section 2: The Rhythm of Organizational Creativity -- 6 Institutional Change -- 7 Configurations and Institutions -- 8 Persons Define Places of Politics -- The Alter Ego -- The Court Theologian -- The Politics Pro -- The Entrepreneur -- 9 Persons Settle the Stages of History -- The Founders -- The Movers and Shakers -- The Professionals -- The Zealots -- 10 Political Archaeology -- 11 The Many Emerge As the One -- The Mandarins -- The Mayor's Office -- The Staff -- 12 Creativeness and Efficiency -- The Vice Mayor and the Deputy Mayors -- The Cabinet -- Policy Committees -- Colonies -- The Political Organization -- 13 On Studying a Phenomenon of Creativity: The Process of Alternating Perceptions -- 14 The Movements of Inquiry Into the Movements of Governing -- Chapter 3: The Party, Carrier of Creativity -- 1 Philosophical Argument: Time, History, and Society.

The Kevin White Interest -- 2 The Interest and the Party -- 3 The Interest and Its Legitimacy -- The Structure of the Party: Members, Metamorphoses, and Metastases -- 4 Members: The Unreflective Creation of a Political Body -- 5 Metamorphoses: The Junctures of Creativity -- 6 Metastases: The Configuration of Creativity -- Ingression -- Transplantation -- Implantation -- Configuration -- Foundation -- The Life of the Party: A Morphology -- 7 Friends and Clients -- 8 Connections -- 9 The Ethology of Nepotism -- 10 The Political Epoch -- 11 Priming the Party -- 12 The Currency of Power -- Darkness, Shadows, and Light -- The Illusion of Publicity -- Political Banking: Phenomenological Approaches -- Formalities -- The System of Political Insurance -- Tributes to Power -- Nodes of Behavior -- Riddling Oddities -- The Patrician Moment -- 13 The Pathology of Politics -- 14 The Autocrat, the Government, and the Party -- Creativity: The Movement unto Creation -- Creativity: The Movement unto Forms -- Creativity: The Movement unto Time -- Chapter 4: The Government, Movements of Creativity -- 1 Philosophical Argument: The Politician's Progress -- The "New" and the "Old" -- The Discovery of the Politician -- The Revelation of Power -- 2 Persons and Institutions -- 3 The Primacy of Persons -- 4 The Consilium -- 5 Institutionalist Politics -- 6 Axial Configurations -- 7 The Appearance of Power -- 8 The Limits of Power -- 9 Power in the Twilight -- 10 Power and Representation -- 11 The Assumption of Power -- 12 Arcana Imperii -- 13 Simulacra Imperii -- 14 The Government and the City -- Chapter 5: The City, Space of Creativity -- The Spatial Process of Society -- 1 Philosophical Argument: Politics and Space -- 2 Cities -- 3 Urban Architecture: The Construction of Society -- The Process of Spatial Creativity -- 4 The Vision -- 5 Visions and Constraints.

6 Constraints and Visions -- The Politics of Spatial Creativity -- 7 Statements -- 8 Images -- 9 The Discourse -- Movements of "Planning" -- 10 Off to Utopia -- 11 Back to Life -- Institutional History -- "Plans" -- Shifts of Functions -- People -- Shifts in Activity -- Political History -- The Rise in Creativity -- 12 Within Reality: Boston Regained, Boston Lost -- Politics, Space, and Creativity -- 13 Gravitational Structures of Creativity -- 14 People and Decisions -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- The Cast -- The Author.