The Death of Expertise PDF
By:Tom Nichols
Published on 2017-02-01 by Oxford University Press
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. Nichols has deeper concerns than the current rejection of expertise and learning, noting that when ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy-or in the worst case, a combination of both. The Death of Expertise is not only an exploration of a dangerous phenomenon but also a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age.
This Book was ranked at 8 by Google Books for keyword Anaesthesia.
Book ID of The Death of Expertise's Books is ttf_DQAAQBAJ, Book which was written byTom Nicholshave ETAG "0XVHJuJ96VU"
Book which was published by Oxford University Press since 2017-02-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780190469436 and ISBN 10 Code is 0190469439
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "240 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true
Book Preview
Download The Death of Expertise PDF Free
Download The Death of Expertise Books Free
Download The Death of Expertise Free
Download The Death of Expertise PDF
Download The Death of Expertise Books
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar