Information, Power, and Democracy Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge
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Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. His recent publications include Who Owns Knowledge: Knowledge and the Law (with Bernd Weiler, 2008), Knowledge and Democracy (2008), Society: Critical Concepts in Sociology (with Reiner Grundmann, 2008), Climate and Society (with Hans von Storch, 2010), Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise (with Reiner Grundmann, 2011) and The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy (with Reiner Grundmann, 2012).'Reflecting deeply on the history, contemporary condition and future possibilities for the knowledge-democracy relationship, Nico Stehr has produced a most considered and original account. This book is both scholarly and provocative.' Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School
'Nico Stehr has provided a characteristically subtle and comprehensive account of the role of knowledge in modern democratic societies - but one that goes against the grain of much academic opinion on the topic. Whereas many see the increasing political importance of scientific knowledge as pointing towards an anti-democratic technocracy, Stehr observes the opposite tendency: namely, that the increase in the production - but especially the distribution - of knowledge has the potential to empower the vast majority of people in unprecedented, as well as unexpected, ways.' Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick