Mourning administrative generosity in a postgenerous time : lessons from Wallace Shawn's the designated mouner
By: HOWE, Louis E
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2002Administration & Society 33, 6, p. 583-609Abstract: This article examines the role of generosity in public administration from a peculiar literacy perspective, that of Wallace Shawn's play. The Designated Mourner. Inm the recent past, deontologists in the disciplin, such as Emette Redford, articulated rich theories of democratic responsiveess, but today these theories no longer command a scholarly consensus. This collapse, or "death", of deontology has led to a scramble for a new philosophical foundation to animate the study and practice of administration, with various candates self-proclaiming themselves to be deontology's designate mouner. This article examines three candidates: neo-Lockean natural law, neo-Habermanssean communicative competence, and neo-Nietzschean receptive generosity. Only the third contains a strong eunough commitment to democratic generosity to resist the temptation of self-effacement represented by Shawn's designated mourner
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This article examines the role of generosity in public administration from a peculiar literacy perspective, that of Wallace Shawn's play. The Designated Mourner. Inm the recent past, deontologists in the disciplin, such as Emette Redford, articulated rich theories of democratic responsiveess, but today these theories no longer command a scholarly consensus. This collapse, or "death", of deontology has led to a scramble for a new philosophical foundation to animate the study and practice of administration, with various candates self-proclaiming themselves to be deontology's designate mouner. This article examines three candidates: neo-Lockean natural law, neo-Habermanssean communicative competence, and neo-Nietzschean receptive generosity. Only the third contains a strong eunough commitment to democratic generosity to resist the temptation of self-effacement represented by Shawn's designated mourner
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