Free Downloads The Burden Of Office: Agamemnon And Other Losers
Joseph Tussman’s The Burden of Office is a book about the nature of political authority. Consider the symptoms of our present dilemma: leadership reduced to media “sound bites,” legitimate public power sold off to the marketplace in the name of “privatization,” citizens transformed into dubiously literate consumers in a Global Village. Can we make sense of any of this?To do so, Tussman turns to some of the oldest and greatest stories in our tradition. He re-reads and re-tells the tales of Moses, Oedipus, Orestes, Antigone and King Lear. The re-tellings, as it quickly becomes apparent, are really new tellings that explore the deepest meanings of our social institutions. Tussman traces the tension between passion and puritanism in an effort to make sense of public office and public authority in a way that leads to neither blind obedience nor fashionable cynicism.Lucid, original and ultimately wise, The Burden of Office is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy.
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Talonbooks (January 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0889222657
ISBN-13: 978-0889222656
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
Best Sellers Rank: #2,011,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #86 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > Canadian #716 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Ancient & Medieval Literature > Greek #2808 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical > Cultural Heritage
The Burden of Office: Agamemnon and Other Losers Your Office: Microsoft Office 2016 Volume 1 (Your Office for Office 2016 Series) Three Greek Tragedies: Medea, Antigone and Agamemnon (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED] Programming Microsoft Office 365 (includes Current Book Service): Covers Microsoft Graph, Office 365 applications, SharePoint Add-ins, Office 365 Groups, and more (Developer Reference) Your Office: Getting Started with Project Management (Your Office for Office 2013) Your Office: Microsoft Excel 2016 Comprehensive (Your Office for Office 2016 Series) Your Office: Microsoft Access 2016 Comprehensive (Your Office for Office 2016 Series) How to Start a Family Office: Blueprints for setting up your single family office (Family Office Club Book Series 3) A Complete History of U.S. Combat Aircraft Fly-Off Competitions: Winners, Losers, and What Might Have Been Mindset: The New Psychology of Trading Success: Losers Are Born And Winners Are Made (How To Grow Small Account Book 1) Smart Baseball: Why Pitching Wins Are for Losers, Batting Average is for Suckers, and Saves Don't Mean S*** Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines Tournament of Losers The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good Global Health Risks: Mortality and Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risks The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease The Burden of Proof Samuel Zwemer: The Burden of Arabia (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
