Knowledge and Politics
"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 …
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- Full title :Knowledge and Politics / edited by Riccardo Viale.
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"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.
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- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Imprint, Physica, Physica-Verlag HD
- Place of Publication:Heidelberg
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 154 pages 1 illustration)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783642575648, 3642575641
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-57564-8
- oclc:ocn851736627
- LC Classification:JA1-92
- Dewey Decimal:320
Table of Contents
Truth, Science, and Politics: An Analysis of Social Epistemology -- A "Satisfying" Theory of Social Knowledge -- Knowledge and the Politics of Transition -- Bringing Power to Knowledge. Choosing Policies to Use Decentralized Knowledge -- Knowledge, Power and Self as Distinct Spheres -- Two Conceptions of Democracy -- The Crisis of Complexity.
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