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Order Out of Chaos
Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
Av Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. …
Cosmopolitics II
Häftad, 2011
303 kr
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Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and truth. Cosmopolitics II includes the first English-language translations of the last four books: …
Another Science is Possible
A Manifesto for Slow Science
Häftad, 2017
250 kr
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Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is …
Cosmopolitics I
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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From Einstein’s quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking’s belief that we “would know the mind of God” through such a theory, contemporary science-and physics in particular-has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of the universe. In a sweeping work of philosophical …
Women Who Make a Fuss
The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf
Av Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret
Häftad, 2021
290 kr
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Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned women against joining the procession of educated men and being co-opted into protecting a …
Glänta 1(2017) Klimatångest
Av Naima Chahboun, Jonas Gren m. fl.
2017
84 kr
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Vad är klimatångest för slags känsla? Vad betyder den? Gläntas nya nummer undersöker känslan, inte bara som ett psykologiskt och individuellt problem, utan också som ett samhälleligt och kulturellt fenomen. Finns det en potential till någonting kollektivt i den krismedvetenhet som för den enskilde …
Power and Invention
Situating Science
Häftad, 1997
316 kr
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Using the law of thermodynamics, Stengers sets out to explain the consequences of non-linear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science. The author makes a case for the concept of complexity that transcends the conventional boundaries of scientific discourse and that clearly exposes the …
Fronesis 86-87. Framtider
Av adrienne maree brown, Kati Lindström m. fl.
2025
150 kr
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Välkommen till framtiden! Men vilken framtid? Framtiden som begrepp är både mångtydigt och politiskt laddat. Å ena sidan framställs den som en naturlig förlängning av det förflutna och som något som kan planeras, styras och förutses. Å andra sidan öppnar begreppet framtider i plural för en kamp …
History of Chemistry
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Isabelle Stengers
Inbunden, 1996
896 kr
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From the earliest use of fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone, the secrets of the elements have been pursued by human civilization. But, as the authors of this concise history remind us, “disciplines like physics and chemistry have not existed …
Thinking with Whitehead
A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers—one of today’s leading philosophers of science—goes straight to the beating …
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason
Hypnosis As a Scientific Problem from Lavoisier to Lacan
Av Léon Chertok, Isabelle Stengers
Inbunden, 1992
902 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Cosmopolitics II
Inbunden, 2011
846 kr
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Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and truth. Cosmopolitics II includes the first English-language translations of the last four books: …
Hypnosis Between Science and Magic
Av Isabelle Stengers, Matthew Fuller m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
287 kr
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What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers' political and philosophical thought …
Hypnosis Between Science and Magic
Av Isabelle Stengers, Matthew Fuller
Inbunden, 2024
925 kr
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What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers' political and philosophical thought …
Hypnosis Between Science and Magic
E-bok, 2024
312 kr
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What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers'' political and philosophical thought …
Hypnosis Between Science and Magic
E-bok, 2024
312 kr
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What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking are at the very heart of the acclaimed philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers'' political and philosophical thought …
Speculative Empiricism
Revisiting Whitehead
Häftad, 2017
373 kr
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Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be reconciled with a method of systematic cosmological speculation? Didier Debaise’s reading of Process and Reality …
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
Reality in Trouble
Inbunden, 2023
1182 kr
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In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John …
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
Reality in Trouble
Häftad, 2023
302 kr
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In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John …
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
Reality in Trouble
E-bok, 2023
456 kr
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In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino , first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John …
Another Science is Possible
A Manifesto for Slow Science
Inbunden, 2017
691 kr
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Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is …
Another Science is Possible
A Manifesto for Slow Science
E-bok, 2018
273 kr
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Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is …
Doctors and Healers
Av Tobie Nathan, Isabelle Stengers
Inbunden, 2018
711 kr
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly …
Doctors and Healers
Av Tobie Nathan, Isabelle Stengers
Häftad, 2018
238 kr
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly …
Doctors and Healers
Av Isabelle Stengers, Tobie Nathan
E-bok, 2018
253 kr
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly …
Making Sense in Common
A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse
Inbunden, 2023
1237 kr
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A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophyWith her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but also inspired a rethinking of critical …
Making Sense in Common
A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse
Häftad, 2023
301 kr
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A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophyWith her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but also inspired a rethinking of critical …
Order Out of Chaos
Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
Av Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
E-bok, 2018
174 kr
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Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. …
