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

• Autore: Farmer David John <1935-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 351/.01
• Soggetto topico: Public administration; Corporate governance; Bureaucracy; Political science - Philosophy
• Note generali: First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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".
• Sommario/riassunto: ''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.
• Titolo autorizzato: To kill the king
• ISBN: 1-317-45355-7; 1-315-69867-6; 1-317-45356-5; 1-280-91248-0; 9786610912483; 0-7656-2167-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784472103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II