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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, David John, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Corporate governance.

Bureaucracy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.

Language Note:

English

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.

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".

Notes:

First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-45355-7

1-315-69867-6

1-317-45356-5

1-280-91248-0

9786610912483

0-7656-2167-3

9781315698670

OCLC:

476082086