To Kill the King: Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

ISBN-13: 9780765614810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str.

David John Farmer

Opis

This original work captures the heart, and enlarges the soul, of reform movements within the study of governance and bureaucracy. Author David John Farmer provides constitutive features of a new consciousness for democratic governance that will revolutionize the subject of public administration. 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-modernist camp or not) who wants to expose students to fresh challenges and new insights.

Spis treści

Part I Thinking as Play; Chapter 1 Start with Plato: Playing; Chapter 2 More Play: Like a Gadfly?; Chapter 3 Self and Detritus; Chapter 4 Writing, with a Deviant Signature; Chapter 5 Listen to Symbols; Chapter 6 Truth: Skepticism, Certainly; Part II Justice as Seeking; Chapter 7 Start with Shakespeare: O Cursed Legacy!; Chapter 8 Justice Systems: More in Heaven and Earth?; Chapter 9 Self, with Style; Chapter 10 Other and Hesitation; Chapter 11 Tradition: Golden Ruling; Chapter 12 Other Traditions: Silver Ruling; Part III Practice as Art; Chapter 13 Start with Michelangelo: What I, a Bureaucrat, Expect; Chapter 14 Visible Hand: Cult of the Leader; Chapter 15 Invisible Hand: Unexamined Rhetoric; Chapter 16 A Nun and Barbed Wire; Chapter 17 Love and Mere Efficiency; Chapter 18 To Kill the King, and “Good and No Places”;

O autorze

David John Farmer