- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/4360541/9780804759014.jpg)
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0804759014
- ISBN-13: 9780804759014
- Format: 15.5 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Agnotology (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
Reviews
Description
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.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 18d.23:31:50
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0804759014
- ISBN-13: 9780804759014
- Format: 15.5 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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.
Reviews