David John Farmer
American philosopher
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David John Farmer's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy Princeton University
- Masters Philosophy Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David John Farmer is a professor emeritus of philosophy and public affairs in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is best known for his publications on post-traditional governance theory and practice – especially on macro public administration and public policy. He has also published on the philosophy and foundations of economics, on the metaphysics of time and on criminal justice policy and management. Post-traditional conceptual approaches analyzed in his writings include thinking as play, justice as seeking, practice as art, reflexive language, imaginization, anti-administration, deterritorialization, and epistemic pluralism.
David John Farmer's Published Works
Published Works
- The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity (2001) (179)
- Public Administration in Perspective: Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses (2010) (52)
- The Biospiritual Awakening?@@@The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism@@@The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work@@@The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (2001) (47)
- Public Administration Discourse (1999) (27)
- The Reflective Practitioner and the Uses of Rhetoric (2003) (22)
- Derrida, Deconstruction, and Public Administration (1997) (18)
- Leopards in the Temple (1997) (16)
- Postmodernism and Public Administration's Identity Crisis@@@The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity and Post-Modernity@@@Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse (1997) (14)
- The Allure of Rhetoric and the Truancy of Poetry (2003) (13)
- Mapping Anti-Administration: Introduction to the Symposium (2001) (12)
- Because My Master Bathes Me (2003) (12)
- Being in time : the nature of time in light of McTaggart's paradox (1990) (11)
- Crime Control: The Use and Misuse of Police Resources (1984) (11)
- Constructing Civil Space (2002) (11)
- Symposium: The Great Refusal. Power of Refusal: Introduction to the Symposium (2003) (10)
- Talking About Religion (2005) (10)
- Contemporary conceptual space: reading Adam Smith (1997) (9)
- The Discourse Movement: A Centrist View of the Sea Change (1999) (8)
- Frigginomics Begins in Kindergarten: The Social Construction of ”Normal” Citizens and Their Dreams (2005) (8)
- See Spot Run (2007) (7)
- Against Myopia: Public Administration and Ethics (1998) (7)
- Neuro‐Gov (2007) (7)
- The Devil's Rope (2002) (6)
- Five Great Issues in the Profession of Public Administration (2018) (6)
- The Rhetoric of Public Administration (2002) (5)
- The Police Manager (1984) (5)
- Invited Essay: Epistemic Pluralism and Neuroscience (2008) (5)
- Love and Un-Engineering (2002) (5)
- Somatic Writing: Attending to Our Bodies (2001) (4)
- Theorizing in Perspective (2012) (4)
- Public Administration Discourse As Play With A Purpose (2017) (4)
- The Ladder of Organization-Think: Beyond Flatland (2000) (4)
- Quintet: Introduction to Post-Traditional Theory (2005) (4)
- Wal-Mart®: Neo-Feudal (K)Night? (2006) (3)
- Economic Theory and the Big Economy (2014) (3)
- Lobby(Ectomy): Not in Our Tradition (2006) (3)
- P.A. Eth-Talk: Is It Ethical? (1) (2000) (3)
- Great Refusals and the Administered Life (2000) (3)
- Medusa: Helene Cixous and the Writing of Laughter (2001) (3)
- Anti-Admin: With Help from Herbert Marcuse (1999) (3)
- Neuro-Gov: Neuroscience and Governance (2006) (3)
- A Dancing Star: Arguments From Imagination (2005) (2)
- A Conversation Between Song Jinzhou and David John Farmer (2009) (2)
- The Moral First, The Technical Second! (2005) (2)
- A State of Love: Homeland Security (2002) (2)
- Life-Changing Books (2003) (2)
- The Elected Official (1984) (2)
- Invited Essay: Public Administration in a World of Economics (2010) (2)
- Invisible hand and visible management (2003) (2)
- Coping With The Super-Abstract: Teaching About the Implications of Postmodernism for Public Administration (1995) (2)
- Change the Course, Neurons! (2007) (2)
- Dogs of War: Fighting Back (2015) (2)
- Out of the fly-bottle? A post-script on post-traditional public administration (2016) (2)
- Is the King Dead (2009) (1)
- Froglets or Fairy Tales (1999) (1)
- Imagine! Preface to the Post-Traditional (2006) (1)
- Always Leave ’Em Laughing: NPR and the Next Blossom (2001) (1)
- The Future of Local Law Enforcement: The Federal Role (1979) (1)
- Administration as Unconscious: Do Penguins Have Knees? (2000) (1)
- Fact versus Fact: A Selective View of Police Research in the United States (1976) (1)
- Justice, hesitancy and the in‐between (1996) (1)
- Social Science as a Complex Social Science as a Complex Economics as Example (2012) (1)
- New York and the “P” in POSDCORB (2002) (1)
- Fragmented Warrior (2013) (1)
- More Books: More Play (2004) (1)
- Power Speaking v. Speaking to Power: A Discourse War? (1999) (1)
- The Spirit of Our Age: PA-think as Uncovering (2006) (1)
- Politics and Policing (1984) (1)
- I Know Thee Not (2004) (1)
- Expanding the Ethical Sphere (2003) (1)
- Quiddities: Toward a PA Dik-tionary (2004) (1)
- Public Administration in a World of Economics (2021) (1)
- Practical Leadership in Public Administration: The Practicality of Poetry (2017) (1)
- Sub-administration: ideologies, myths and metaphors (2018) (1)
- Crime and Police Resources: A Policy Agenda (1984) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2003) (0)
- The Science of Policing (1984) (0)
- Bradley and McTaggart on Time (1996) (0)
- The Art of Policing (1984) (0)
- Thanks to O. C. McSwite (2003) (0)
- CommonSense’s Meeting, and the Intrusions of Detective Sipowicz (2000) (0)
- St. Anselm : A Perspective on Anti-Administration (2017) (0)
- Fractured Governmentality: A Night in the Emergency Room (E.R.) (2001) (0)
- Epilogue (2019) (0)
- The Vision-Thing (2000) (0)
- Contemplating Bureaucracies: A Tale of Identities – Essay 3 (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Contemplating Cops: A Tale of Identities – Essay 1 (2017) (0)
- Silence (2004) (0)
- New Community Approach (1984) (0)
- Beyond Public Administration (2019) (0)
- Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory (2021) (0)
- A New Managerial Approach (1984) (0)
- Froglets or Fairy Tales? (2021) (0)
- Power of Refusal: Introduction to the Symposium (2021) (0)
- Contemplating Bureaucracies: A Tale of Identities – Essay 4 (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool (1991) (0)
- Answers to the Puzzle (2017) (0)
- Public Administration in Governmentality (2019) (0)
- Through the Wall: Images of Administration out of Time, out of Place- An Introduction (2017) (0)
- The Devil’s Rope (2021) (0)
- Purpose and Policing (1984) (0)
- Puzzle: Metaperspectives and Some Possible P. A. Implications (2017) (0)
- September 11th (2001) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Theorizing in Perspective: Epistemic Pluralism (2021) (0)
- Contemplating Cops: A Tale of Identities – Essay 2 (2017) (0)
- In Appreciation of the Editorship of Richard C. Box (2008) (0)
- In the Pink! (2003) (0)
- CommonSense@Admin New York and the "P" in POSDCORB (2002) (0)
- Tonto and the Lone Ranger: Concepts Reveal, Concepts Mask (2001) (0)
- Frigginomics Begins in Kindergarten: The Social Construction of “Normal” Citizens and Their Dreams (2021) (0)
- Book Review: Cops, Killers and Staying Alive: The Murder of Police Officers in America (1987) (0)
- Red Queen (2007) (0)
- Recent Regulatory and Legislative Developments of Interest to Energy Lawyers (2013) (0)
- Context : Post-Truth (2019) (0)
- Context (2019) (0)
- Contemplation and Beyond (2019) (0)
- Government-in-Context (2019) (0)
- Postmodern Public Administration: Listening to Other Voices (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- THE DISCOURSE MOVEMENT (1999) (0)
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