Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g
The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-046941-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.
As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce
intellectual achievement.
Nichols has deeper concerns than the current rejection of expertise and learning, noting that when ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy-or in the worst case, a combination of both. The Death of Expertise is not only an exploration of a dangerous phenomenon but also a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information
Age.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie