H. Sidky

Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World (eBook, ePUB)

A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the end of 2019, Americans were living in an era of post-truth characterized by fake news, weaponized lies, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, magical thinking, and irrationalism. While many complex interconnected factors were at work, this post-truth era was partly the culmination of a cadre of anthropologists and other academics in American universities and colleges during the 1980's and 1990's. In Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World, H. Sidky examines how their untoward dalliance with problematic and dangerous ideas by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard informed and empowered a forceful assault on science and truth in the following decades by corporate organizations, politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793606525
• Artikelnr.: 60708444

Autorenporträt

H. Sidkyis professor of anthropology at Miami University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The War on Science and Reason and the Way to Post-Truth
Chapter 2: De-legitimizing Science in the Academy: Ideological
Underpinnings
Chapter 3: Science Studies and the Anthropology of Science: How
Postmodernists Sought to Demystify Truth
Chapter 4: The Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Incomprehensibility, and
the Sokal Hoax
Chapter 5: American Intellectual Contributions to Science Delegitimation:
Kuhn and Feyerabend
Chapter 6: Epistemic Relativism: Is the World Truly Unknowable?
Chapter 7: Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know?
Chapter 8: The Problem of Pseudoscience in Post-Truth America
Chapter 9: Postmodern Anthropology: Epistemic Relativism and Incoherence as
an Experimental Moment?
Chapter 10: Paranormal and Theistic Anthropology: From Postmodernism to
Post-Truth Supernaturalism
Chapter 11: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth United States