The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters / Tom Nichols.
By: Nichols, Thomas M [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197763865Subject(s): Information society -- Political aspects | Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects | Knowledge, Sociology of | Expertise -- Political aspects | Education, Higher -- Political aspects | Internet -- Political aspectsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197763827DDC classification: 303.4833 LOC classification: HM851 | .N54 2024Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: 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.
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This edition also issued in print: 2024.
Previous edition: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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