To Kill The King: Post-traditional Governance And Bureaucracy

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Three Questions......Page 10
Intellectual Context......Page 13
Contents......Page 14
What Is Post-Traditional Thinking?......Page 19
1 • Start with Plato: Playing......Page 21
Claim #1......Page 26
Play and Prescription......Page 27
Suggestion #1: Imagine Poetic Contemplation as the Standard......Page 33
Suggestion #2: Start with Plato......Page 36
2 • More Play: Like a Gadfly?......Page 39
Example #1:......Page 40
Example #2:......Page 41
A First Gadfly Ideal: Topic and Turf......Page 42
A Second Gadfly Ideal: Anti-Administration......Page 46
3 • Self and Detritus......Page 50
Privileging System over Self......Page 51
Privileging Self over System......Page 52
A Whole Person......Page 55
Person-in-Herself In-Her-Difference......Page 57
Detritus......Page 61
4 • Writing, with a Deviant Signature......Page 63
Individual Signature......Page 64
The Group Signature......Page 72
5 • Listen to Symbols......Page 75
Traditions of Symbolic Analysis......Page 76
Symbols, Symbols Everywhere......Page 78
6 • Truth: Skepticism, Certainly......Page 80
Truths from a Perspective......Page 81
What Counts......Page 84
Skepticism......Page 87
What Is Post-Traditional Justice?......Page 91
7 • Start with Shakespeare: O Cursed Legacy!......Page 93
Aporia......Page 94
Complexities......Page 95
Will-to-Simplicity......Page 97
Capitalism......Page 98
8 • Justice Systems: More in Heaven and Earth?......Page 101
Recognizing Indecisiveness in Justice Systems......Page 102
Indecisiveness in Culture-Based Systems......Page 106
A Note on Religion......Page 109
Epilogue......Page 110
9 • Self, with Style......Page 111
Searching-Within......Page 112
Style......Page 117
Epilogue......Page 120
10 • Other and Hesitation......Page 121
Authentic Hesitation......Page 122
Neighboring Antecedents......Page 126
Epilogue......Page 130
11 • Tradition: Golden Ruling......Page 131
Golden Rule Jingle......Page 132
The Other: Interpretation......Page 134
12 • Other Traditions: Silver Ruling......Page 138
What Is Post-Traditional Practice?......Page 145
13 • Start with Michelangelo: What I, a Bureaucrat, Expect......Page 147
The Machine System......Page 149
What I Expect......Page 158
14 • Visible Hand: Cult of the Leader......Page 159
Leadership No!......Page 160
Cult of Leadership in Public Bureaucracy......Page 163
Symbolic Character of the Leadership Cult......Page 166
Epilogue......Page 171
15 • Invisible Hand: Unexamined Rhetoric......Page 172
The Rhetoric of the Invisible Hand......Page 173
Segregation and Lack......Page 177
Economic Corporations......Page 180
Rebeginnings......Page 183
16 • A Nun and Barbed Wire......Page 186
Prevalence of Barbed Wire......Page 188
Types......Page 191
Art in Unraveling Barbed Wire......Page 193
17 • Love and Mere Efficiency......Page 195
Personal Love......Page 197
Unengineering......Page 198
18 • To Kill the King, and “Good and No Places”......Page 201
The Hierarchy of Traditional Language......Page 202
End-State Regulative Ideals: Good and No Places......Page 205
Process Regulative Ideal: Opening Democracy......Page 209
References......Page 213
Index......Page 223
About the Author......Page 235