This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series
extends democracy to knowledge in two ways. First, it argues that the
issues science seeks to clarify are relevant for all citizens. Second,
it explains that the fundamental problems faced by any democracy, such
as the economic crisis, are not so much problems of political will as
cognitive failures that must be resolved through both a greater
knowledge of the realities over which we govern and a fine-tuning of
the tools of governance. In fact, knowledge and related fields are
spheres in which not only economic prosperity, but also democratic
quality, are determined. Thus politics of knowledge and through
knowledge has become a question of democratic citizenship. After
introducing the concept of governing knowledge, the book discusses the
political action of collective organization of uncertainty, before
developing the idea of the cognitive challenge of the economy,
revealed by today's economic crisis. A groundbreaking work by a
renowned philosopher, it will be an accessible and fundamental
resource for anyone interested in the relation of power to knowledge.
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ISBN
9781623560331
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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