Bøger af Isabelle Stengers

After examining late 18th-century shifts in scientific paradigms, this study reconsiders the history of psychoanalysis, notably its suppression and repression of phenomena associated with hypnosis in its search to establish itself as a science in accord with new ideals of scientific reasoning.

Originally published in French as: Maedecins et sorciers.

A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis.

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues, like global warming, have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages, symptomatic of a rushed approach.

Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.

At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what 'relevance' is, and to cultivate a new ethos of knowledge-making for an eventful world.

A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science's claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth

In Thinking with Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers--one of today's leading philosophers of science--goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead's thought. Both an erudite yet accessible introduction and a highly advanced commentary, it establishes the mathematician-philosopher as a daring thinker on par with Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault.

Using the law of thermodynamics, this text examines the consequences of non-linear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science - making a case for the concept of complexity that transcends conventional boundaries of scientific discourse and exposes the risks of scientific theories.