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Bent Flyvbjerg

Rationality and Power

Democracy in Practice

Translated by Steven Sampson
304 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing  6 x 9  © 1998
Series: Morality and Society Series

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226254494   Published February 1998

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226254517   Published February 1998

Preface
Map of Downtown Aalborg
1: In Some Remote Corner of the Universe
2: The Aalborg Project
3: Bacon and Nietzsche Come to Northern Jutland
4: Power Defines Reality
5: Rationality as Frozen Politics
6: The Rationality of Resistance
7: The Weakness of the Better Argument
8: The Longue Duree of Power
9: Rationality in the Context of Power
10: Interpretation over Truth
11: Antagonistic Reactions at Play
12: Farewell to Reason
13: The Dream Plan
14: Knowledge Kills Action
15: Minutiae Matter
16: Myths Die Hard
17: Exit the Innovators
18: A Single Drama...with an Endless Play of Dominations
19: Reality Check
20: Power Has a Rationality That Rationality Does Not Know
Postscript
App. A: Main Actors in the Aalborg Project
App. B: Chronology of the Aalborg Project
App. C: Elements in the Original Aalborg Project
Notes
Index
Subjects



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