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Facts and values collide: knowledge shapes action and our future.
Knowledge Matters:
the structures of knowledge and the crisis of the modern world-system
$32.80
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184 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2010
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Summary
Knowledge Matters: Reimagining Our World in an Age of Crisis
We face a long-term structural crisis in how we understand our world. With the rise of capitalism came structures of knowledge that divided ‘facts’ (sciences) from ‘values’ (humanities), but these divisions have become unsustainable in today’s society - as shown by Australia’s ongoing history wars.
Lee argues that both knowledge and its structures form an inseparable whole, which governs what actions people will ta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702238420 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702238422 |
| Series: | Creative Economy + Innovation Culture |
| Author: | Lee E. Richard |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 139mm x 15mm |
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