TY - BOOK ID - 143495386 TI - The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters PY - 2024 SN - 0197763847 0197763863 0197763855 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Information society KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Knowledge, Sociology of. KW - Expertise KW - Education, Higher KW - Internet KW - Political aspects. KW - Media Studies. KW - Sociology & anthropology. KW - democracy, epistemology, education, narcissism, authoritarianism, populism, conspiracy theories, illiberalism, conspirituality, expertise UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143495386 AB - Building on his enormously successful first edition, Tom Nichols confirms his thesis that events, such as the COVID pandemic, prove that the assault on expertise has only intensified. Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. 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. Over the past several years, the rise of populism and conspiracy theories have taken this to new levels. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. ER -