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To kill the king : post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / David John Farmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780765621672
  • 0765621673
  • 1280912480
  • 9781280912481
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To kill the king.DDC classification:
  • 351/.01 22
LOC classification:
  • JF1351 .F373 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Start with Plato : playing -- More play : like a gadfly? -- Self and detritus -- Writing, with a deviant signature -- Listen to symbols -- Truth : skepticism, certainly -- Start with Shakespeare : o cursed legacy! -- Justice systems : more in heaven and earth? -- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places."
Summary: ''To Kill the King'' sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three 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 improvement in the quality of life for each individual.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.

Start with Plato : playing -- More play : like a gadfly? -- Self and detritus -- Writing, with a deviant signature -- Listen to symbols -- Truth : skepticism, certainly -- Start with Shakespeare : o cursed legacy! -- Justice systems : more in heaven and earth? -- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places."

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''To Kill the King'' sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three 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 improvement in the quality of life for each individual.

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