On Thinking Institutionally by Heclo, Hugh

On Thinking Institutionally (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199945993)

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Format: Hardcover
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On Thinking Institutionally by Heclo, Hugh

On Thinking Institutionally

$160.00
On Thinking Institutionally by Heclo, Hugh

On Thinking Institutionally

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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 the concept of office and professionalism. Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally.

Author: Hugh Heclo
ISBN-10: 0199945993
ISBN-13: 9780199945993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2011
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
By Hugh Heclo
By Hugh Heclo
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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.

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