McGoey, Linsey
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
- ISBN 13:
- 9781780326351
- author:
- McGoey, Linsey
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Zed Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 24 x 13.8 x 13.8 centimetres (0.
- Genre:
- Business, Communication, Nonfiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey A bold exploration of the relationship between ignorance and power in the modern age, from debates over colonial power to legal defences today. McGoey reveals that strategic ignorance has long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, and that true power lies in convincing others where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies. This wide-ranging study examines how figures at the top have used deliberate ignorance as a defence against culpability, despite disasters on their watch causing harm to many people's lives. McGoey argues that the idea that knowledge is power no longer applies in today's post-truth world, where strategic ignorance remains a key tool of those in power. By tracing the evolution of this phenomenon from the 18th and 19th centuries to the present day, The Unknowers sheds new light on the ways in which power operates in modern society.
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