Agnotology

What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnatology--the study of ignorance--provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask, Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in this book show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don't want you to know. Individual chapters treat…