Ignorance: Everything You Need to Know about Not Knowing [Paperback]

Robert Graef has given us an essential lexicon and field guide of ignorance, a most slippery and multidimensional concept. Rich in history and philosophical analysis, this work should be required reading in the classroom and the boardroom, in book clubs and around the dinner table. A national conversation about what we do and do not know, should and should not know, and can and cannot know, and the dangers and pitfalls of not knowing the differences.?Bill Vitek, coeditor of The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of KnowledgeBoldly but humanely, Robert Graef?explores how ignorance is a comprehensive force and an existential danger. Wide-ranging, conscientious, and compellingly well researched, filled with apt examples and vivid metaphors, Ignorance is the most thoughtful book of its kind that Ive ever read. In confronting ignorance, Graef has struck a social and historical mother lode, a topic that is at once profound and amusing, specific and inexhaustible. He has set forth on a philosophical marathon and arrived at the finish line without losing his breath. This is a book to cherish. It should be on the bookshelves of anyone who aspires to social consciousness.?Robert Grudin, author of American VulgarThis is an entertaining map of human ignorance and the threats it poses. Its witty and chock-full of pithy examples. Given the rising tide of BS and ignorance, it couldnt be timelier. Highly recommended.Stephen Law, lecturer in philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London, and author of Believing BullshitA creative, insight-packed ramble through the vast world of what we dont know.?Robert N. Proctor, author of Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of IgnoranceThe flip side of knowledge is ignorance. This book explores the vast scope of ignorance, even in an age when we think we know more than ever before. By marking off this ocean of ignorance into manageable categories, the author provides a kind of navigational chart tl“ä