Author

Publication

2008 - Encounter Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

36,250 words, Guess

Page Count

145 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101594032092
  • ISBN-139781594032097
  • Goodreads5978869
  • LibraryThing7724919
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008032355
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number221149395
  • Better World Books9781594032097
  • Better World BooksW8-ACY-512
  • Open LibraryOL17030417M

Classifications

  • DDC303.48/30973
  • LCCQ175.52.U5 L48 2008
  • LCCQ175.52.U6 L48 2008
and 1 more
  • LCCQ175.52.U5L48 2008

Description

"In Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy, Yuval Levin explores the complicated meanings of science and technology in American politics and finds that the science debates have much to teach us about our political life. These debates, Levin argues, reveal some serious challenges to American self-government, and put on stark display the deepest strengths and greatest weaknesses of both the left and the right." "Most of the science debates, he concludes, are not about particular innovations, technologies, theories, or facts. Rather, they come down to a profound dispute between liberals and conservatives about the right way to think about the future. Science is only one subject of this broader dispute, but it is one that makes the nature of the divide at the heart of our politics unusually dear. Properly understood - which they have not been lately - those debates may illuminate the contours of our politics and the deepest meaning of scientific progress."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • New Atlantis books

Other Editions

  • Imagining the futureEncounter Books2008

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