To Kill the King

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.

Autorentext

David John Farmer

Inhalt

Part I Thinking as Play; Chapter 1 Start with Plato: Playing; Chapter 2 More Play: Like a Gadfly?; Chapter 3 Self and Detritus; Chapter 4 Writing, with a Deviant Signature; Chapter 5 Listen to Symbols; Chapter 6 Truth: Skepticism, Certainly; Part II Justice as Seeking; Chapter 7 Start with Shakespeare: O Cursed Legacy!; Chapter 8 Justice Systems: More in Heaven and Earth?; Chapter 9 Self, with Style; Chapter 10 Other and Hesitation; Chapter 11 Tradition: Golden Ruling; Chapter 12 Other Traditions: Silver Ruling; Part III Practice as Art; Chapter 13 Start with Michelangelo: What I, a Bureaucrat, Expect; Chapter 14 Visible Hand: Cult of the Leader; Chapter 15 Invisible Hand: Unexamined Rhetoric; Chapter 16 A Nun and Barbed Wire; Chapter 17 Love and Mere Efficiency; Chapter 18 To Kill the King, and "Good and No Places";