General Information

Author/Creator

Eyal, Gil, author.

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge : Polity Press, 2019.

Physical Description

190 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Are we witnessing, therefore, the "death of expertise," or is the handwringing about an "assault on science" merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites? In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that the current mistrust of experts is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy"--

Subjects

Subject

Specialists > Social aspects.

Expertise > Social aspects.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Suspicion > Social aspects.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Gil Eyal.

Content

Expertise -- The debate about expertise -- Trust -- Risk -- Crisis, take 2 -- Inside the vortex -- Balaam's blessing -- Conclusions, or, trans-science as a vocation.

Available in another form

Online version: Eyal, Gil. The crisis of expertise. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. 9781509538874 (DLC) 2019981015

ISBN

9780745665771

9780745665788

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	121 EYA		Reference	-

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