Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Science and Public Reason: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

Autor Sheila Jasanoff
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iun 2012
This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legitimacy in an era of potentially unbounded risks—physical, political, and moral. Those legitimating efforts, in turn, depend on citizens’ acceptance of the forms of reasoning that governments offer. Included here therefore is an inquiry into the conditions that lead citizens of democratic societies to accept policy justification as being reasonable. These modes of public knowing, or “civic epistemologies,” are integral to the constitution of contemporary political cultures.
Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on divergent cross-cultural constructions of public reason and the reasoning political subject. The collection as a whole contributes to democratic theory, legal studies, comparative politics, geography, and ethnographies of modernity, as well as STS.
 
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 48829 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Taylor & Francis – 23 sep 2013 48829 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 105984 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Taylor & Francis – 26 iun 2012 105984 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria The Earthscan Science in Society Series

Preț: 105984 lei

Preț vechi: 129249 lei
-18% Nou

Puncte Express: 1590

Preț estimativ în valută:
20285 20905$ 17126£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 03-17 martie

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415524865
ISBN-10: 0415524865
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Tables, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Earthscan Science in Society Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1.  Public Reason  2. Product, Process, or Programme  3. In the Democracies of DNA  4. Restoring Reason  5. Image and Imagination  6.  Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science  7.  The Songlines of Risk  8. Judgment under Siege  9. Technologies of Humility  10.  What Judges Should Know about the Sociology of Science  11.  Expert Games in Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation  12.  The Eye of Everyman  13. In a Constitutional Moment:  Science and Social Order at the Millennium

Recenzii

'This collection brings together a quarter century of writing by Sheila Jasanoff on the sources and impacts of science and technology. In showing how they permeate public life, she demonstrates also that the field of Science and Technology Studies is no arcane speciality, but a research field of sweeping significance for law, history, administration, and the social sciences. At stake in the interactions of science with democratic institutions is public reason itself.' – Theodore M. Porter, Department of History, UCLA, USA
'This book fascinatingly asks: What begins where all that seems solid, all that modernity has created, melts into air, leaving no shared ground to stand on? Sheila Jasanoff's exciting answer: a new age and style of public reason that can shed surprisingly clear light on a world in turmoil.' – Ulrich Beck, University of Munich, Germany & L.S.E, U.K
'No one has contributed as much as Sheila Jasanoff to furthering our understanding of the importance of law in the complex relationships that develop between politics and technoscience. Science and Public Reason is more than a collection of her most significant articles on the subject; this seminal book opens entirely original perspectives on what, in a globalized world, a new alliance between science, techniques and democracy could and should be.' Michel Callon, Ecole des mines de Paris, France
‘Sheila Jasanoff’s latest book demonstrates, once again, why she  is at the very forefront of  her field.’ – Bruce Ackerman, Yale University, USA
"Professor Sheila Jasanoff’s superb treatise Science and Public Reason, part of Earthscan’s Science in Society Series, is a wonderful book describing, through a collection of her essays and articles from the past 25- years, the rise of the field of Science and Technology Studies. The book could not have arrived soon enough, as we now globally face the triple threat of 1)massive biodiversity loss, 2) nutrient cycling disruption (greenhouse gases, Montreal Protocolgases, nitrogen fertiliz er caused eutrophication, etc.), and 3) water quality degradation (saltwater intrusion, depleted aquifers, lack of clean drinking water, etc.).' – Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, Mongabay.com
'Without doubt, the essays put together in the volume are work in immense scholarship. Picking on scientific controversies from Germany, England, the US and India, ranging from mad cow scare to silicone gel breast transplant, Jasanoff creates a mosaic of scientific controversies wherein interplay between science and public reasoning had led to influencing state policies to some extent.' – Sudhirendar Sharma, d-sector.org

Descriere

This book offers an empirically detailed, cross-nationally comparative account of the institutional logics and practices through which modern democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument designed to persuade publics that legal and policy decisions are founded on reliable knowledge and expertise.