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 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. |
Contents
Like a Gadfly? | |
Self and Detritus | |
Writing with a Deviant Signature | |
Listen to Symbols | |
Other and Hesitation | |
Silver Ruling | |
Practice as Art What Is PostTraditional Practice? | |
What I a Bureaucrat Expect | |
Cult of the Leader | |
Unexamined Rhetoric 16 A Nun and Barbed Wire | |
Skepticism Certainly | |
O Cursed Legacy | |
More in Heaven and Earth? | |
Love and Mere Efficiency | |
To Kill the King and Good and No Places | |
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 | To Kill the King: Post-Traditional Governance and Bureaucracy David John Farmer Limited preview - 2014 |
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 | To Kill the King: Post-traditional Governance and Bureaucracy David John Farmer Limited preview - 2005 |
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