This timely book explores 10 big, important new challenges facing our towns and cities. Comprehensively researched and thoughtfully presented, this fascinating book will make politicians, administrators, and local leaders think hard about the direction and future of their communities."--Pub. desc.
We are living in the century of the city. Local government is becoming the most important order of government. The leadership of our towns and cities--from mayors and councillors to chief administrative officers, city managers, and clerks--is crucial in building prosperous, creative, sustainable, and successful communities. Gord Hume's challenging new book cracks open the rarely studied field of local government leadership, sharing new research about attitudes and opinions from municipal elected and administrative officials across Canada, and revealing startling insight and deep divisions inside our city halls. This book confronts some of the biggest issues facing municipal leaders today: the "7 Cs" of leadership; three enormous emerging issues that will influence government leadership in the future; the community debacle when some mayors and elected officials become corrupt and face public humiliation for them and their city; and strategies for developing and encouraging smarter leadership for tomorrow. The Leadership Crisis is a provocative look at the leadership skills needed by the women and men running for public office today. Do our councils need a commissioner of integrity ... or do we just need councils with integrity? This remarkable book includes a stunning chapter on huge crises that confronted three Canadian municipalities and the story of the extraordinary local leadership that emerged. It offers international examples of great local leadership and city building. And, it bluntly confronts corrupt and inept elected officials in Canadian municipalities."--
Municipalities are facing significant new costs and higher local taxes because of food- and water-related problems and challenges. The book offers some ideas, solutions, and challenges to municipal leaders that you simply can't miss."--Pub. desc.
Through in-depth interviews with leading experts around the world, Places and Spaces lays out a path for creating livable, prosperous and sustainable cities.It offers a sharply-conceived analysis of how the public and private realms intersect - and often collide
Romantic Metasubjectivity Through Schelling and Jung: Rethinking the Romantic Subject explores the remarkable intellectual isomorphism between the philosophy of Friedrich Schelling and Carl Jung’s analytical psychology in order to offer a crucial and original corrective to the "reflection theory" of subjectivity. Arguing that the reflection theory of the subject does not do justice to the full compass of Romantic thinking about the human being, Romantic Metasubjectivity sees human identity as neither discursive aftereffect nor centred around a self-transparent "I" but rather as constellated around the centripetal force of what Novalis calls "The Self of one’s self." The author begins with a unique reading of Schelling’s early Naturphilosophie as primal site rather than Freudian scene, thinking this site through his Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom to The Ages of the World. Reading Jungian metapsychology and its core concepts as therapeutic amplifications of Schelling, the author articulates an intellectual counter-transference in which Schelling and Jung contemporise each other. The book then demonstrates how Romantic metasubjectivity operates in the libidinal matrix of Romantic poetry through readings of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound. The book concludes with a discussion of the hit TV series Breaking Bad as a "case study" of the challenges Romantic metasubjectivity raises for fundamental ethical dilemmas which confront us in the twenty-first century. Romantic Metasubjectivity is a highly original work of scholarship and will appeal to students and scholars in German Idealism, Romanticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, theory, Jung studies, and those with an interest in contemporary theories of the subject.
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