Charles B. Osburn

The Western Devaluation of Knowledge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a conceptualization and valuation of knowledge that reverses the traditional knowledge continuum that connects data (information) to understanding. As a result, we displace the subjective and human features of knowledge with automated systems that conforms with information and devalues the knowledge process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781442228795
• ISBN-10: 1442228792
• Artikelnr.: 39364212

Autorenporträt

Charles B. Osburn is dean and professor emeritus at The University of Alabama. He has taught French or library science for some forty years and conducted a doctoral seminar on epistemology and information theory for twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: the Ways and Means of Cultural Change
Chapter 2. Science, Industry and the Invention of a New Worldview Chapter
3. Management as Cultural Authority Chapter 4. The Cultural Values of Work
and Leisure Chapter 5. The Strategy & Spirit of Capitalism Chapter 6. From
Material Need to Consumer Culture Chapter 7. Higher Learning as Marketplace
Chapter 8. Globalization of the Tightening Systems Knot Chapter 9. Time to
Think Chapter 10. Balancing Values through Cultural Change Chapter 11.
Progress and Myth Chapter 12. Knowledge Devalued: Summary & Conclusions
Bibliography