TY - BOOK ID - 138251895 TI - The democracy of knowledge PY - 2013 SN - 1623560330 1501301772 1623566649 9781623566647 9781501301773 9781623560331 9781623562755 1623562759 PB - New York : Bloomsbury, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy. KW - Knowledge economy. KW - Knowledge management KW - Knowledge, Sociology of. KW - Economic aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138251895 AB - "This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series extends democracy to knowledge in two ways. First, it argues that the issues science seeks to clarify are relevant for all citizens. Second, it explains that the fundamental problems faced by any democracy, such as the economic crisis, are not so much problems of political will as cognitive failures that must be resolved through both a greater knowledge of the realities over which we govern and a fine-tuning of the tools of governance. In fact, knowledge and related fields are spheres in which not only economic prosperity, but also democratic quality, are determined. Thus politics of knowledge and through knowledge has become a question of democratic citizenship. After introducing the concept of governing knowledge, the book discusses the political action of collective organization of uncertainty, before developing the idea of the cognitive challenge of the economy, revealed by today's economic crisis. A groundbreaking work by a renowned philosopher, it will be an accessible and fundamental resource for anyone interested in the relation of power to knowledge."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -