Mikael Klintman

Knowledge resistance

How we avoid insight from others

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Produktbeschreibung

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781526151742
• ISBN-10: 152615174X
• Artikelnr.: 58590755

Autorenporträt

Mikael Klintman is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Lund and a former Wallenberg Fellow of Environment and Sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, most recently Knowledge Resistance: How We Avoid Insight from Others (2019). His work has been featured in the Times, the Times Literary Supplement and on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 What knowledge resistance isn't and a hint at what it is 3
If you're with us, don't believe them 4 Why invalid claims can be valuable
5 Knowledge belief first, confirming evidence second 6 What's in it for me
to know that? 7 When knowledge is responsibility and ignorance freedom 8
What if the earth is round? Concerns about cultural consequences 9 How to
resist knowledge resistance - and when 10 Is knowledge resistance always
bad, and other questions Index