Knowledge and Politics - Softcover

Viale, Riccardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3790814229 ISBN 13: 9783790814224

Verlag: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

"Does knowledge matter to politics?" is the main question the book tries to answer. The analysis is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of topics: a social epistemology assessment of the efficacy of political institutions in promoting the generation and the diffusion of science and technology; the proposal of the alternative concept of satisfying rationality to found the theory of social knowledge; the roles of social knowledge in the constitution making and the transitional justice; the arguments in favor of decentralized knowledge in social problem solving and its empowerment through devolution, de-bureaucratization and deregulation; the means to ensure the independency of knowledge from power and at the same time its social utility; the knowledge justified to inform the voters in political campaigns; the critique to technocracy as the wrong solution to deal with the crisis of complexity in contemporary society.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3790814229
• ISBN 13: 9783790814224
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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