ABSTRACT
On the epistemological and the moral, for instance, O. C. McSwite’s paper in the symposium points out that anti-administration has an anti-abstraction motif, but it is a motif that requires a person who is at home with abstraction. Anti-administration’s primary aim is to increase the openness of Public Administration thinking by encouraging consciousness changes in related disciplines, like Economics and Political Science. Achieving anti-administration’s primary aims, in the present context, probably will include a focus on undermining ideologies that serve to buttress traditional public administration. Tricia Patterson illuminates the ironic, playful and anti-bureaucratic stance of anti-administration by personifying it and drawing a comparison with the trickster figure. The symposium includes not only traditional analysis but also, in the spirit of anti-administration, imaginative play-with-a-purpose. Anti-administration is engaged in the world as Socrates was—always making a nuisance of himself in the agora. O.C. McSwite’s paper in this symposium talks about an anti-administrative attitude of abhoring the abstractions it embraces.
