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9780765614810

To Kill the King: Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765614810

  • ISBN10:

    0765614812

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2005-01-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Author Biography

David John Farmer is professor of government and public affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction xi
I. Thinking as Play
What Is Post-Traditional Thinking?
1(72)
1. Start with Plato: Playing
3(18)
2. More Play: Like a Gadfly?
21(11)
3. Self and Detritus
32(13)
4. Writing, with a Deviant Signature
45(12)
5. Listen to Symbols
57(5)
6. Truth: Skepticism, Certainly
62(11)
II. Justice as Seeking
What Is Post-Traditional Justice?
73(54)
7. Start with Shakespeare: 0 Cursed Legacy!
75(8)
8. Justice Systems: More in Heaven and Earth?
83(10)
9. Self, with Style
93(10)
10. Other and Hesitation
103(10)
11. Tradition: Golden Ruling
113(7)
12. Other Traditions: Silver Ruling
120(7)
III. Practice as Art
What Is Post-Traditional Practice?
127(68)
13. Start with Michelangelo: What I, a Bureaucrat, Expect
129(12)
14. Visible Hand: Cult of the Leader
141(13)
15. Invisible Hand: Unexamined Rhetoric
154(14)
16. A Nun and Barbed Wire
168(9)
17. Love and Mere Efficiency
177(6)
18. To Kill the King, and "Good and No Places"
183(12)
References 195(10)
Index 205(12)
About the Author 217

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