David John Farmer

To Kill the King

Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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-modern camp or not) who wants to expose students to fresh challenges and insights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780765614810
• ISBN-10: 0765614812
• Artikelnr.: 22200206

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"