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Yaron Ezrahi, born in 1940 in Tel-Aviv, is an Israeli political theorist and an Emeritus professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem )〕 He is also a senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem.〔(The Israel Democracy Institute – Professor Yaron Ezrahi )〕 Ezrahi is known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. His latest work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy and the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries and performances of the democratic order. His books have been translated into German and Chinese. ==Theories and Works== In Ezrahi’s publications between 1971 and 1990, he established the impact of the scientific revolution on the rise of the instrumental concept of politics in the modern democratic state and on its commitments to the transparency and accountability of power, the ideological neutrality of the state, deliberative public discourse and the rationality of public policy. Ezrahi has shown that despite such commitments, the political uses of scientific authorities and experts as political resources have often eclipsed the application of relevant bodies of knowledge in public policy. Ezrahi has backed up his claims by the analysis of the controversy over the relations between IQ group scores and genetics, the political uses of science indicators, the analysis of the latent selective process induced by civil epistemology and the political contexts of scientific advice. Professor Ezrahi's works since the early 1990s has concentrated on the changing interaction between science and politics in Post-Enlightenment or postmodern democracies. They include two articles on the impact of Einstein’s physics on democratic culture and the ironic implications of his esoteric theories on his commitment to participatory democracy; Ezrahi's entry in the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences;〔See: Vol. 20, pp. 13657-13664.〕 and his work on the relations between modes of reasoning and the politics of authority in the modern state. Ezrahi contributed articles on liberty and republicanism to the Harvard volume on the classical tradition. Ezrahi has investigated the impact of the shifty political imagination of the political order on the rise, decline and transformation of democracy. This research has evolved into a revisionist theory of democracy which combines the institutionalization of hegemonic imaginaries of order with their enactment or performance by political actors and the latent processes of naturalizing fictions into realities. This work has been consolidated in Ezrahi's latest book "Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions". Most recently, Ezrahi collaborated with his wife, Professor Ruth HaCohen, in a book examining the voices of the individual and the voice of the many in the encounter between music and politics. He currently works on a comparative study of the respective roles of violence, political theatricality and the authority of science in legitimating political power. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yaron Ezrahi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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