Isabelle Stengers

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino

Reality in Trouble

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Produktbeschreibung

Isabelle Stengers addresses the challenges of situating modern, scientific, and technical practices of thinking without falling into the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020295
• ISBN-10: 1478020296
• Artikelnr.: 67336197

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Stengers is Emerita Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and is the author of numerous books, including Making Sense in Common: A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse, Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science, and In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism. Andrew Goffey is Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator’s Preface  vii
1. Scientists in Trouble  1
2. The Force of Experimentation  17
3. Dissolving Amalgams  38
4. The Sciences in Their Milieus  61
5.Troubling the Public Order  86
Intermezzo: The Creation of Concepts  111
6. On the Same Plane?  119
7. We Are Not Alone in the World  144
8. Ecology of Practices  169
9. The Cosmopolitical Test  197
Appendix: The First Experimental Apparatus?  207
Notes  217
Bibliography  235
Index  241