
The Western Devaluation of Knowledge
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This book explains this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to gain strength in the 15th century and continued on that path through today's economic and cultural globalization. The author shows that science and technology, while bringing good on many fronts have also:
Weakened or replaced traditional sources of cultural authority,Advanced a materialistic outlook; Hastened the broad spread of capitalist values, principles, and strategies;Fostered a pervasive dependence on technological innovation; andNurtured an extreme rationality.
Osburn shows that while any one of the above cultural currently would have been sufficient to cause deep and generalized change, their confluence was the deciding inspiration for a different epistemology, one that has altered the generally accepted meaning and valuation of knowledge.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: the Ways and Means of Cultural Change
Chapter 2. Science, Industry and the Invention of a New Worldview
Chapter 3. Management as Cultural Authority
Chapter 4. The Cultural Values of Work and Leisure
Chapter 5. The Strategy & Spirit of Capitalism
Chapter 6. From Material Need to Consumer Culture
Chapter 7. Higher Learning as Marketplace
Chapter 8. Globalization of the Tightening Systems Knot
Chapter 9. Time to Think
Chapter 10. Balancing Values through Cultural Change
Chapter 11. Progress and Myth
Chapter 12. Knowledge Devalued: Summary & Conclusions
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