by Jean-François Revel · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432047893
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«El conocimiento inútil» is the philosophical essay by Jean-François Revel, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (354 pages, in Spanish).
Revel starts from a contradiction: the more information and knowledge accumulate, the less the world seems to improve. Faced with this paradox, he argues that lies and the manipulation of information prevent knowledge from translating into real progress.
The book won the Prix Chateaubriand in 1988; the subtitle of the work is «La primera de todas las fuerzas que dirigen el mundo es la mentira».
A work for readers interested in philosophy, politics, sociology, and critical analysis of the media.
Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, published in French in 1970.
