(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643406)
We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape. From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology-the study of ignoranc...Lasīt vairāk
We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got hereand how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology...Lasīt vairāk
A comparative analysis of the governance of irregular migrants in France, Germany and the UK since the 1960s. Will appeal to scholars and students of immigration policy, irregular migration, and theories of state knowledge, as well as the growing fi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781911723523)
Aristotle claimed that all human beings want to know. Yet our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow prepo...Lasīt vairāk
A seminal volume in the burgeoning sociology of ignorance, this collection introduces theoretical and empirical tools for studying the productive uses of ignorance in political, social and legal organizations. This book was originally publi...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it? It proposes a new way of thinking about ignorance based on contemporary and historical philos...Lasīt vairāk
What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more ignorance? Is ignorance socially produced? Is knowledge always socially contextualized? This book dea...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032495590)
The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas. Wha...Lasīt vairāk
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignoranceJeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement A declaration of l...Lasīt vairāk
Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on a wide...Lasīt vairāk
A survey of humanitys lingering desire for innocence and ignorance, as captured in art and literature-- A wise and wonderfully enjoyable book. Mark Lilla treats weighty matters with a light touch, in an elegant prose style that crac...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009410182)
A comparative analysis of the governance of irregular migrants in France, Germany and the UK since the 1960s. Will appeal to scholars and students of immigration policy, irregular migration, and theories of state knowledge, as well as the growing fie...Lasīt vairāk
a brief history of the study of ignorance. There is a lack of serious investigation into ignorance: apart from the apophatic tradition in the ancient world and the Middle Ages and the more recent fields of agnotology, philosophy of race, and feminis...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research, from known events...Lasīt vairāk
In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Mar-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503632561)
In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of me...Lasīt vairāk
