The unknowers : how strategic ignorance rules the world /: how strategic ignorance rules the world. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Linsey McGoey.
• Authors: McGoey, Linsey
• Contents: Front Cover; Praise; About The Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Power to Ignore; REFUSING TO IGNORE THE POWER OF IGNORANCE; BLISSFUL IGNORANCE?; MICRO-IGNORANCE AND MACRO-IGNORANCE; THE STRONGS, THE SMARTS AND THE GREATS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK; 1: Narrow History; CREDIBILITY DEFICITS; AGNOTOLOGY AND ITS LIMITS; THE LEGITIMACY OF QUESTIONING EXPERT AUTHORITY; THE BANNON-PINKER CONUNDRUM; PSYCHOLOGICAL BLINKERS; A NEW DEFINITION OF RATIONAL IGNORANCE; 2: Seeing Ignorance Differently; USEFUL UNKNOWNS; IGNORANCE ALIBIS; ORACULAR POWER ORACULAR POWER IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTORACULAR 'ENLIGHTENMENT'; IGNORANCE UNSHARED; TORTURE AND THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS; GOD AND WEALTH; 3: Elite Agnotologists; MISPERCEIVING THE IGNORANCE OF ELITES; AFFLUENT RACISTS; IS 'FAKE NEWS' THE MAIN PROBLEM?; NATIONAL FORGETTING; TAKING ELITE IGNORANCE SERIOUSLY; VOTER IGNORANCE AND EPISTOCRACY; MORALITY AND EDUCATION; THE IGNORANCE EXCUSE; 4: The Murdoch Strategy; VICTORY FOR MURDOCH; THE TRUTH WILL OUT?; BUREAUCRATIC QUAGMIRES; UNDERSTANDING THE ANTI-CLIMAX; MURDOCH'S WORD; BEHIND THE FAÇADE; AN ACADEMIC SCANDAL; THE NARROWING OF THE ACADEMIC GAZE FROM ELITE TO REVOLUTIONARY IGNORANCE5: Suspicious Attention; THE NEOCLASSICAL TURN; SHARED PROSPERITY?; SMITH: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IGNORED; THE VALUE OF 'SUSPICIOUS ATTENTION'; A KNOWLEDGE HEIST; VOLTE-FACE; WHAT'S IN A NAME?; 6: Know-It-All Epistocrats; FROM KNOWERS TO UNKNOWERS; CAN A MAN IN LOVE SPEAK THE TRUTH?; LIBERAL CENSORSHIP; BLINDSPOTS; THE SPELL OF PLATO; CHALLENGING THE KNOW-IT-ALLS TODAY; 7: Conflict Blindness; UNACCOUNTABLE TRADE; UNFINISHED BUSINESS; FINE IN THEORY; THE REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS; 8: Masters of Industry, Masters of Ignorance; IGNORED HISTORY DEMOCRATIC WEAPONS OF FREEDOMTHE LANGUAGE TRICK; THE BIRTH OF THE CEO IGNORANCE ALIBI; THE RIFLE DIET; NEVER WRITE ANYTHING DOWN; WHO KNEW?; GLOSSING CONFLICT; WORLD BANK DOUBLESPEAK; MILESTONES; SEE NO EVIL; 9: The Ostrich Instruction; USEFUL IGNORANCE IN LEGAL HISTORY; EQUAL CULPABILITY; WHEN YOU'RE BIG ENOUGH, IGNORANCE DOES EXCUSE; THAT'S ILLEGAL?!; THE SNOWMOBILE FALLACY; VOTER IGNORANCE SEE-SAWS; GOOD TIMING; THE WILL TO IGNORE; 10: Good Experts; SELF-FULFILLING REGULATORY FAILURE; PRUDENT REGULATION; IGNORANCE BATTLES; THE LEGAL FALLOUT; FROM HERO TO PARIAH; SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE EXPERTS AND EPISTOCRACYIT'S EASIER AT THE TOP; EAR PAIN; RESTITUTION; KNOWING WHAT NOT TO KNOW; 11: The Pretence of Ignorance; COMPROMISED EXPERTISE; HIDDEN DATA IN PLAIN SIGHT; PRUDENCE OR NEGLIGENCE?; DAUGHTERS; CROSSING THE LINE; ENTRENCHED BELIEFS; THE DEMOCRACY ADVANTAGE; DISSERVICE TO HEROES; STOP SEEING; THE REVIVAL OF CHECKS AND BALANCES; Conclusion: The Great Enlargement; GREATER HISTORY; FROM STRATEGIC IGNORANCE TO EMANCIPATIVE IGNORANCE; THE NEW AND THE OLD; THE UNFINISHED CHALLENGE; INCONVENIENT TRUTHS; BLAME GOD?; THE LORDE PRINCIPLE; Notes; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages)
• Subjects: 306.42; Knowledge, Sociology of; Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Blame; Popular philosophy; Blame; Ignorance (Theory of knowledge); Knowledge, Sociology of; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780326375; 1780326378; 9781780326382; 1780326386; 9781780326399; 1780326394
• Related ISBNs: 9781780326368; 178032636X; 9781780326351; 1780326351
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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