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The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History

The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History

Armytage, W. H. G.

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0415413052
ISBN13: 9780415413053
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 20 2006
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been virtually dragged on to the political stage because of their 'collectivities' - groups formed over the last four centuries often more fugitive than institutional - which have helped modify the human environment, thereby enabling men to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the present and plan for the future. The byproducts of such plans, from the great botanical gardens to the seed beds of physical scientists like the Ecole Polytechnique, have also incubated further ideas about the relation of science and society that are ecumenical in scope.

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