Seeing Like A State:How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Chinese Edition)

James C. Scott

ISBN 10: 752014593X / ISBN 13: 9787520145930

Published by Social Science Academic Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seeing Like A State:How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Chinese Edition)
• Publisher: Social Science Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN 10: 752014593X
• ISBN 13: 9787520145930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

在这部内容丰富且极具原创性的著作中，詹姆斯·C. 斯科特分析了在各个领域中，由国家主导的大型规划项目遭遇失败的例子。斯科特指出，当国家权力坚持推行简单的规划方案，而这种方案对复杂且不易理解之相关性尤显粗暴时，中央主控的社会规划项目就很难取得成功。进而言之，针对社会组织的设计要想获得成功，必须依靠这样一种认知：即地方知识和实践知识与常规知识和技术知识同等重要。作者列举了令人信服的例证，并质疑了“发展理论”，同时反对独裁权力主导的规划项目对国民价值、愿望和目标的忽视。“社会的清晰性提供了大规模开展社会工程的可行性，极端的现代主义意识形态提供了愿望，独裁的国家有实现这一愿望的决定权和行动能力，软弱的公民社会则提供了等级社会作为其实现的基础。”在作者看来，上述四个因素的结合，往往使得悲剧难以避免。