Conference paper

Democracy and Technocracy or Political Decision-Making and Expert Knowledge in Contemporary Civilization

Hermann Lübbe ; University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract

A civilization is scientific to the same degree to which assumptions concerning
reality- those upon which we base our actions and the decisions that
proceed them- do no more arise from our experience but are rather products
of specialised epistemological practice, i. e. products of an institutionally emancipated
scientific practice. The author outlines a situation which is increasingly
burdening the political system in modern, scientificized, and highly industrialized
societies in which expert knowledge is made use of but is also the object
of a sharpening civilization-centered critique.

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Hrčak ID:

112188

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/112188

Publication date:

1.12.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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