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"