ISBN:
9781780326375
,
9781780326382
,
9781780326399
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 369 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als McGoey, Linsey The unknowers
DDC:
306.42
Keywords:
Knowledge, Sociology of
;
Electronic books
;
Elite
;
Misswirtschaft
;
Soziale Probleme
;
Unwissenheit
Abstract:
An intriguing investigation, shattering the hackneyed notion that knowledge is power.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Praise -- About The Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Power to Ignore -- REFUSING TO IGNORE THE POWER OF IGNORANCE -- BLISSFUL IGNORANCE? -- MICRO-IGNORANCE AND MACRO-IGNORANCE -- THE STRONGS, THE SMARTS AND THE GREATS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- 1: Narrow History -- CREDIBILITY DEFICITS -- AGNOTOLOGY AND ITS LIMITS -- THE LEGITIMACY OF QUESTIONING EXPERT AUTHORITY -- THE BANNON-PINKER CONUNDRUM -- PSYCHOLOGICAL BLINKERS -- A NEW DEFINITION OF RATIONAL IGNORANCE -- 2: Seeing Ignorance Differently -- USEFUL UNKNOWNS -- IGNORANCE ALIBIS -- ORACULAR POWER -- ORACULAR POWER IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- ORACULAR 'ENLIGHTENMENT' -- IGNORANCE UNSHARED -- TORTURE AND THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS -- GOD AND WEALTH -- 3: Elite Agnotologists -- MISPERCEIVING THE IGNORANCE OF ELITES -- AFFLUENT RACISTS -- IS 'FAKE NEWS' THE MAIN PROBLEM? -- NATIONAL FORGETTING -- TAKING ELITE IGNORANCE SERIOUSLY -- VOTER IGNORANCE AND EPISTOCRACY -- MORALITY AND EDUCATION -- THE IGNORANCE EXCUSE -- 4: The Murdoch Strategy -- VICTORY FOR MURDOCH -- THE TRUTH WILL OUT? -- BUREAUCRATIC QUAGMIRES -- UNDERSTANDING THE ANTI-CLIMAX -- MURDOCH'S WORD -- BEHIND THE FAÇADE -- AN ACADEMIC SCANDAL -- THE NARROWING OF THE ACADEMIC GAZE -- FROM ELITE TO REVOLUTIONARY IGNORANCE -- 5: Suspicious Attention -- THE NEOCLASSICAL TURN -- SHARED PROSPERITY? -- SMITH: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IGNORED -- THE VALUE OF 'SUSPICIOUS ATTENTION' -- A KNOWLEDGE HEIST -- VOLTE-FACE -- WHAT'S IN A NAME? -- 6: Know-It-All Epistocrats -- FROM KNOWERS TO UNKNOWERS -- CAN A MAN IN LOVE SPEAK THE TRUTH? -- LIBERAL CENSORSHIP -- BLINDSPOTS -- THE SPELL OF PLATO -- CHALLENGING THE KNOW-IT-ALLS TODAY -- 7: Conflict Blindness -- UNACCOUNTABLE TRADE -- UNFINISHED BUSINESS -- FINE IN THEORY -- THE REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS.
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