Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Rauch, Jonathan

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815738862)

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Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Rauch, Jonathan

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

$27.99
Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Rauch, Jonathan

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

$27.99
Format: Hardcover
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Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge"--our social system for turning disagreement into truth.



Author: Jonathan Rauch
ISBN-10: 0815738862
ISBN-13: 9780815738862
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2021
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2021
By Jonathan Rauch
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Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer of The Atlantic. His previous books include Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Rauch resides in Washington, DC.

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