Linsey McGoey: The Unknowers | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781780326351 | The Unknowers | How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World | McGoey

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Beschreibung

Deliberate ignorance has been known as the 'Ostrich Instruction' in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figures at the top still get away with it when disasters on their watch damage so many people's lives? Does the idea that knowledge is power still apply in today's post-truth world?

A bold, wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ignorance and power in the modern age, from debates over colonial power and economic rent-seeking in the 18th and 19th centuries to the legal defences of today, The Unknowers shows that strategic ignorance has not only long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, but also that true power lies in the ability to convince others of where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies.

Über den Autor

Linsey McGoey

Zusammenfassung

'Agnotology,' or the deliberate propagation of ignorance, is a growing popular-psychology buzzword: this book offers a totally new angle and line of study within the field

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Power to Ignore

1. Narrow History

2. Seeing Ignorance Differently

3. Elite Agnotologists

4. The Murdoch Strategy

5. Suspicious Attention

6. Know-it-all Epistocrats

7. Conflict Blindness

8. Masters of Industry, Masters of ignorance

9. The Ostrich Instruction

10. Good Experts

11. The Pretense of Ignorance

Conclusion: The Great Enlargement

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Economic Controversies
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781780326351
ISBN-10:	1780326351
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	McGoey, Linsey
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic Zed Books
Maße:	218 x 136 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Linsey McGoey
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,42 kg