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Preface / Nico Stehr -- Introduction: A World Made of Knowledge / Nico Stehr -- Pt. I. The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context and Consequences -- Introduction / Reiner Grundmann -- 1. Knowledge Policy as the Task of Science: On Ethically Relevant Knowledge of Nature / Gernot Bohme -- 2. Traditional Knowledge in Modern Society / Wolfgang van den Daele -- 3. In Search of Vehicles for Knowledge Governance: On the Need for Institutions that Creatively Destroy Social Capital / Steve Fuller -- Pt. II. Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics -- Introduction / Martin Schulte -- 4. The Rising Relevance of Non-Explicit Knowledge under a New Regime of Knowledge Production / Werner Rammert -- 5. Policing Society: Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology / William Leiss -- 6. The New Human Zoo / Jeffrey Klein -- Pt. III. Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge: The Ineffective Governance of Science -- Introduction / J. Rogers Hollingsworth -- 7. Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production / Troy Duster -- 8. BSE and the Phillips Report: A Cautionary Tale about the Uptake of 'Risk' / Kevin Edson Jones -- 9. Subjects of Knowledge: Epistemologies of the Consumer in the GM Food Debate / Javier Lezaun -- Pt. IV. Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field -- Introduction / Nico Stehr -- 10. The Use of Knowledge in the Legal System: The Relationship Between Scientific Expertise and Legal Decisions / Martin Schulte -- 11. The Innovation Commons / Lawrence Lessig -- 12. Quasi-Science and the State: "Governing Science" in Comparative Perspective / Stephen Turner -- Concluding Observations: Free Flow of Information or Embedded Expertise? Notes on the Regulation of Knowledge / Reiner Grundmann.