ABSTRACT
Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion; domestic law and jurisprudence; sexuality and gender studies; memory studies; international relations; psychology; decision-theory; and colonial history.
The study of ignorance has attracted growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. This handbook reflects the interdisciplinary field of ignorance studies by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields to serve as a path-breaking guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life.
This book will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the important role played by ignorance in contemporary society, culture and politics.
Chapter 21 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Introduction
part I|78 pages
Remaking the philosophy of ignorance
chapter 5|14 pages
On the Relation Between Ignorance and Epistemic Injustice
part II|72 pages
The production of ignorance as a resource
part III|79 pages
Valuing and managing the unknown in science, technology and medicine
chapter 21|13 pages
The Pandemic as we Know It
chapter 22|10 pages
The Right not to Know and the Dynamics of Biomedical Knowledge Production
part IV|58 pages
Power, oppression and hierarchies of ignorance
part V|74 pages
Behavioral ignorance and political economy
part |11 pages
Afterword