David John Farmer

To Kill the King

Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 168mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780765614803
• ISBN-10: 0765614804
• Artikelnr.: 21837070

Autorenporträt

David John Farmer

Inhaltsangabe

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"