Libros de Isabelle Stengers

Manifiesto Por Una Ciencia Slow

• 64 páginas
• En 2011, la Universidad Católica de Lovaina despidió brutalmente a la investigadora Barbara Van Dyck por haber participado en una acción de «descontaminación» de un campo de patatas genéticamente modificadas....

La Brujer?a Capitalista

Reactivar El Sentido Común (n.e.)

• 208 páginas
• Hoy, cuando el saber científico es una parte integral del día a día de los ciudadanos, debemos replantearnos el debate político sobre la ciencia. En este libro, Isabelle Stengers se apoya en la filosofía de Alfred Whiteh...

Otra Ciencia Es Posible (n.e.)

• 176 páginas
• El curso de la historia nos ha llevado a un mundo en que muchos investigadores deben someterse a las directrices del mercado, regirse por sus lógicas competitivas, publicar para el reconocimiento de una «excelencia»?

En Tiempos De Catástrofes

• 160 páginas
• Este libro es para quienes viven en suspenso, para quienes saben que habría que «hacer algo» pero están paralizados, para los que se sienten tentados de pensar que es demasiado tarde, o para los que prefieren creer que todo termi...

Pensar Con Whitehead

• 704 páginas

Another Science Is Possible: Manifesto For A Slow Science

• 220 páginas
• 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 approa...

Order Out Of Chaos

• 384 páginas
• 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...

In Catastrophic Times

• This book is addressed to everyone who is struggling and experimenting today, to everyone who is a true contemporary of what Stengers dares to call "the intrusion of Gaia," this "nature" that has left behind its traditional role and...

Thinking With Whitehead: A Free And Wild Creation Of Concepts

• 552 páginas
• 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...

Invention Of Modern Science

Power And Invention: Situating Science

• One of the most penetrating and celebrated thinkers writing about the philosophy of science today,..

Cosmopolitics I: The Science Wars, The Invention Of Mechanics, Thermodynamics

• From Einstein's quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking's belief that we "would know..

Cosmopolitics Ii

• 480 páginas
• 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...

The End Of Certainty

• 228 páginas
• Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year"...

A History Of Chemistry

• 306 páginas
• From the earliest use of fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists' search for the..

A Critique Of Psychoanalytic Reason: Hypnosis As A Scientific Problem From Lavoisier To Lacan

• 319 páginas
• This original and provocative work begins by examining the shift of scientific paradigms that took place in the late eighteenth century, a shift illustrated by the report of a French Royal Commission appointed in 1784 to investigate Mesmerism. The reactio...