Hugh Heclo

ON THINKING INSTITUTIONALLY

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The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally.His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-994600-6
EAN: 9780199946006
Produktnummer: 22779830
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 221 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.5 cm 227 g
Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor

Hugh Heclo is Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University, a former Professor of Government at Harvard University, and prior to that a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and White House staffer in Washington, D.C. His latest book, Christianity and Democracy in America, will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2007.