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Rule of Experts
Timothy Mitchell
其他書名
Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
出版University of California Press, 2002-11-18
主題BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business DevelopmentBusiness & Economics / Economic ConditionsBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Structural AdjustmentBusiness & Economics / Development / Economic DevelopmentBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & BusinessBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / GeneralHistory / GeneralHistory / Middle East / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPolitical Science / World / Middle EasternSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN05202326239780520232624
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B_RyU1Z4AwIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?

Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national "economy," yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions.

Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory.