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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer, David John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.