{"product_id":"science-and-anthropology-in-a-post-truth-world-a-critique-of-unreason-and-academic-nonsense-9781793606532","title":"Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The War on Science and Reason and the Way to Post-Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: De-legitimizing Science in the Academy: Ideological Underpinnings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Science Studies and the Anthropology of Science: How Postmodernists Sought to Demystify Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Incomprehensibility, and the Sokal Hoax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: American Intellectual Contributions to Science Delegitimation: Kuhn and Feyerabend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Epistemic Relativism: Is the World Truly Unknowable?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: The Problem of Pseudoscience in Post-Truth America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Postmodern Anthropology: Epistemic Relativism and Incoherence as an Experimental Moment?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Paranormal and Theistic Anthropology: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth Supernaturalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth United States\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042618540375,"sku":"9781793606532","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793606532.jpg?v=1750954874","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-and-anthropology-in-a-post-truth-world-a-critique-of-unreason-and-academic-nonsense-9781793606532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}