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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth - Hardcover

by Jonathan Rauch
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan RauchPublish date:2021-06-22Pages:318
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9780815738862ISBN-10:815738862UPC:9780815738862Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Process, Censorship, Civics & CitizenshipBook Topic:Media & InternetSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4815Product ID:SCBM2AP0RS

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge"--our social system for turning disagreement into truth.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9780815738862ISBN-10:815738862UPC:9780815738862Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Process, Censorship, Civics & CitizenshipBook Topic:Media & InternetSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4815Product ID:SCBM2AP0RS
Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer of The Atlantic. His previous books include Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Rauch resides in Washington, DC.
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