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Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy

Autor Lisa Herzog
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2023
Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news, distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can markets play in processing decentralized knowledge? Herzog takes on the perspective of "democratic institutionalism," which focuses on the institutions that enable an inclusive and stable democratic life. She argues that the fraught relation between democracy and capitalism gets out of balance if too much knowledge is treated according to the logic of markets rather than democracy. Complex societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, among which markets, democratic deliberation, and expert communities are central. Citizen Knowledge emphasizes the responsibility of bearers of knowledge and the need to support institutions that promote active and informed citizenship. Through this lens, Herzog develops the vision of an egalitarian society that considers the use of knowledge in society not a matter of markets, but of shared democratic responsibility, supported by epistemic infrastructures. As such, Herzog's argument contributes to political epistemology, a new subdiscipline of philosophy, with a specific focus on the interrelation between economic and political processes. Citizen Knowledge draws from both the history of ideas and systematic arguments about the nature of knowledge to propose reforms for a more unified and flourishing democratic system.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197681718
ISBN-10: 0197681719
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 226 x 165 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Lisa Herzog's important and timely book provides guidance for how to respond to these problems by offering a theory for how democracy and capitalism should be combined.
The book is an elegant exposition of epistemic flaws and opportunities in contemporary capitalist democracies. Both beginning students of philosophy and political science and established professionals will get valuable insights from this excellently researched work.

Notă biografică

Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen. She has held fellowships at the Center for Ethics at Stanford University, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Hamburg Institute of Advanced Studies. She works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic and social issues, focussing on the history of political and economic ideas, normative questions around markets, business ethics, and the future of work. Her books include Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (OUP 2013) and Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organisations in Society (OUP 2018).