Democracy and Technocracy or: political Decision-Making and Expert Knowledge in contemporary Civilization Cover Image

Demokracija i tehnokracija ili: političko odlučivanje i stručnjačko znanje u suvremenoj civilizaciji
Democracy and Technocracy or: political Decision-Making and Expert Knowledge in contemporary Civilization

Author(s): Hermann Lübbe
Contributor(s): Tomislav Martinović (Translator)
Subject(s): Governance, Government/Political systems, Politics and society
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Francis Bacon; Immanuel Kant; Johann Gottlieb Fichte;

Summary/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 precede them - do no more arise from our experience but are rather products of specialized 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-centred critique.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/1992
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 77-87
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian