{"product_id":"9783790814224","title":"Knowledge and Politics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKnowledge and Politics\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eViale, Riccardo\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Does knowledge matter to politics?\" is the main question the book tries to answer. The analysis is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of topics: a social epistemology assessment of the efficacy of political institutions in promoting the generation and the diffusion of science and technology; the proposal of the alternative concept of satisfying rationality to found the theory of social knowledge; the roles of social knowledge in the constitution making and the transitional justice; the arguments in favor of decentralized knowledge in social problem solving and its empowerment through devolution, de-bureaucratization and deregulation; the means to ensure the independency of knowledge from power and at the same time its social utility; the knowledge justified to inform the voters in political campaigns; the critique to technocracy as the wrong solution to deal with the crisis of complexity in contemporary society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Physica\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2001-08-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783790814224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-57564-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 154\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Physica-Verlag HD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44341254783116,"sku":"9783790814224","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783790814224.jpg?v=1777986980","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783790814224","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}