Between Enlightenment and Disaster : Dimensions of the political Use of Knowledge.
Title:
Between Enlightenment and Disaster : Dimensions of the political Use of Knowledge.
Author:
Sangolt, Linda.
ISBN:
9783035260328
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Series:
Philosophie and Politique - Philosophy and Politics ; v.19
Philosophie and Politique - Philosophy and Politics
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements 11 -- INTRODUCTION. The Elusive Quest for Epistemic Certainty 13 -- Epistemic Certainty Questioned. On Science Wars and Scientific Revolutions 29 -- From Order to Governmental Rationalities? Population Policies and the Formation of Global Knowledge Regimes 47 -- A Century of Quantification and "Gold Calculation." Trends in the Pursuit of Efficiency, Growth and Pre-eminence 75 -- A Politics of Knowledge-tools. The Case of Statistics 111 -- Is it Healthy to Measure? A Systematic Analogy between Harsanyi's Social Choice Theory and the Standard Gamble Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) 131 -- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Transformation of the University 149 -- Index 165 -- Contributors 171.
Abstract:
Modern politics is highly science-dependent and knowledge-driven. What is the rightful role of expert knowledge in political life? How can the truth claims of science be reconciled with principles of democratic control and lay participatory rights in decision-making? This collection of essays by political scientists, sociologists and economists from Germany, France and Norway provides different empirical and theoretical analyses of the complex organising and legitimising power of knowledge in political governance. The authors shed light on key dimensions and dilemmas that have shaped the world-changing interrelations between politics, social institutions and scientific knowledge in the past century. The contributions cover issue-areas and policy-fields such as population control, health economics, ICTs and higher education reform, and the politics of productivity and economic pre-eminence.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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