To Kill the King : Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy.
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 eno...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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 ArtWhat 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.
