Jacob Hale Russell: The Weaponization of Expertise, Gebunden
The Weaponization of Expertise
- How Elites Fuel Populism
- Verlag:
- The MIT Press, 03/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262049597
- Artikelnummer:
- 11967737
- Gewicht:
- 567 g
- Maße:
- 236 x 160 mm
- Stärke:
- 28 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 4.3.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The problem with expertise---and the dark side of the equation "knowledge = power."
Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined---perhaps irreparably---public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatism, the overweening elite response has also proved deeply corrosive to expertise itself---in effect, doing exactly what elite policymakers accuse their critics of doing.
A much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, The Weaponization of Expertise identifies a cluster of pathologies that have enveloped many institutions meant to help referee expert knowledge, in particular a disavowal of the doubt, uncertainty, and counterarguments that are crucial to the accumulation of knowledge. At a time when trust in expertise and faith in institutions are most needed and most lacking, this work issues a stark reminder that a crisis of misinformation may well begin at the top.
