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Agnotology

- The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Engelsk Paperback

Agnotology

- The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Engelsk Paperback
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What don''t we know, and why don''t we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don''t we know what we don''t know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don''t want you to know ("Doubt is our product" is the tobacco industry slogan). Individual chapters treat examples from the realms of global climate change, military secrecy, female orgasm, environmental denialism, Native American paleontology, theoretical archaeology, racial ignorance, and more. The goal of this volume is to better understand how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be, or have disappeared, or have become invisible.

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What don''t we know, and why don''t we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don''t we know what we don''t know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don''t want you to know ("Doubt is our product" is the tobacco industry slogan). Individual chapters treat examples from the realms of global climate change, military secrecy, female orgasm, environmental denialism, Native American paleontology, theoretical archaeology, racial ignorance, and more. The goal of this volume is to better understand how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be, or have disappeared, or have become invisible.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9780804759014
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0804759014
Udg. Dato: 12 maj 2008
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato: 12 maj 2008
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Kategori Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori


ISBN-13 9780804759014


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 312


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 12 maj 2008


Oplagsdato 12 maj 2008


Forlag Stanford University Press

Kategori sammenhænge