The Politics of Knowledge

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The present moment is one in which many long-accepted assumptions about the relationship between knowledge and collective life, including the idea of a mutually supportive relationship between modern science and liberal democracy, are coming under fire both within and beyond academia. The aims of this course are to (1) introduce students to scholarship on the relationship between science and politics, broadly construed, with a focus on work in the fields of science and technology studies and the history of science, (2) support students in developing their own research projects on the subject.