The crisis of expertise

Type Book Author Gil Eyal Place Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA Publisher Polity ISBN 978-0-7456-6577-1 978-0-7456-6578-8 Date 2019 Call Number HM651 .E93 2019 Library Catalog Library of Congress ISBN 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"--