LEOPARDS IN THE TEMPLE - BUREAUCRACY AND THE LIMITS OF THE IN-BETWEEN

This article examines a core problematic of bureaucracy. It suggests t hat the study of bureaucracy should make a clearer nonbureaucratic tur n, focusing appropriately on what is described as the in-between Analy sis of structural limits of the in-between-hierarchy and lateralizatio n-should center on the nonbureaucratic. Structure is not the central i ssue. Rather; structure is a surrogate for competing manifest and late nt nonbureaucratic perspectives. Hierarchy is a surrogate not only for a rational order of justice but also for the feasibility of epistemol ogical certainty. Lateralization is a surrogate not only for human aut onomy but also for skepticism and hesitation in knowing. The study of bureaucracy cannot be limited satisfactorily to ''bureaucratic man.'' Rather humans are irreducibly bio-psycho-spirituo-social-cultural bein gs.