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  • Order Out of Chaos

    Man's New Dialogue with Nature

    by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesisOrder 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Another Science is Possible

    A Manifesto for Slow Science

    by Isabelle Stengers ...
    Translated by Stephen Muecke ...
    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 being shaped by the bubbles and crashes associated with economic speculation and the market. A focus on ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Making Sense in Common

    A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse

    by Isabelle Stengers ...
    Translated by Thomas Lamarre ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    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 theory, political thought, and radical philosophy across a range of disciplines. Here, Stengers ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Virgin Mary and the Neutrino

    Reality in Trouble

    by Isabelle Stengers ...
    Translated by Andrew Goffey ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    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 Dewey to Gilles Deleuze, she develops what she calls an “ecology of practices” into a capacious and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Hypnosis Between Science and Magic

    by Isabelle Stengers ...
    Translated by April A. Knutson ...
    Series series Lines
    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 and her insistence that 'the smoke of the burned witches still hangs in our nostrils'.Now, in the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Political Matter

    Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

    by Isabelle Stengers, Jane Bennett ...
    Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Women Who Make a Fuss

    The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf

    by Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by April Knutson ...
    Series series Univocal
    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 “civilization” with values alien to women. Now, as Woolf’s disloyal (unfaithful) daughters, who have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Doctors and Healers

    by Tobie Nathan, Isabelle Stengers ...
    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 technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all.In this book, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Magic’s Translations

    Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia

    by Margaret J. Wiener, Isabelle Stengers ...
    “Do you believe in magic?” This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic’s Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe’s relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents framed unfamiliar ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • The Big Questions: Philosophy

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history's great thinkers. This ambitious project is a unique distillation of humanity's best ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Philosophy of Technology

    The Technological Condition: An Anthology

    Edited by Robert C. Scharff, Val Dusek ...
    Series series Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
    The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.Remains the most comprehensive anthology on the philosophy of technology availableIncludes editors’ insightful section introductions and critical ... Read more

    $59.00 USD