Understanding Society and Knowledge

Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge rather than nature, violence, or power provides the basis of and the driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legally enforced restricted use of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge so...

Nico Stehr, Karl Mannheim Professor em., Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany and Professor of Sociology em., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada