The crisis of expertise
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Item Type
Book
Author
Gil Eyal
Place
Cambridge, UK Medford, MA
Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN
978-0-7456-6577-1 978-0-7456-6578-8
Date
2019
Call Number
121
Library Catalog
BnF ISBN
Language
eng
Abstract
"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"