Isabelle Stengers Knihy

Fragment evoluční ontologie. teprve v epoše globální informační společnosti a kasírovaného kapitalismu lépe vidíme, že čím více se technická civilizace vzdaluje svému původnímu biologickému základu, tím více o jejím osudu polorozhoduje kulturou poškozený hostitelský systém přírody a průměrná, vysoce konzervativní lidská přirozenost.

In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what Savransky calls a “pluralistic realism”—an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made. Savransky explores the radical multifariousness of reality by weaving key aspects of James's thought together with divergent worlds and stories: of Magellan's circumnavigation, sorcery in Mozambique, God's felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, visible spirits in Zambia, and ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Throughout, he experiments with these storied worlds to dramatize new ways of approaching the politics of radical difference and the possibility of transforming reality. By exploring and constructing relations between James's pluralism and the ontological turn in anthropology, Savransky offers a new conceptualization of the pluriverse that fosters modes of thinking and living otherwise.

Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work on the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems, makes his ideas accessible to a wide audience in this book, which has engendered massive debate in Europe and America.

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

A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With 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 unveils what might well be seen as her definitive reading of Whitehead. Making Sense in Common will be greeted eagerly by the growing group of scholars who use Stengers's work on Whitehead as a model for how to think with conceptual precision through diverse domains of inquiry: environmentalism and ecology, animal studies, media and technology studies, the history and philosophy of science, feminism, and capitalism. On the other hand, the significance of this new book extends beyond Whitehead. Instead, it lies in Stengers's recovery of the idea of "common sense" as a meeting place--a commons--where opposed ideas of science and humanistic inquiry can engage one another and help to move society forward. Her reconciliation of science and philosophy is especially urgent today--when climate disaster looms all around us, when the values of what we thought of as civilization and modernity are discredited, and when expertise of any kind is under attack.

Die Eigenständigkeit des philosophischen Werks von Isabelle Stengers bemisst sich an einer riskanten Vermählung des Heterogenen: der Spekulation und der Konstruktion, der Wissenschaft und der Politik, der Kosmologie und der Ökologie. Auf der einen Seite die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Spätwerk von Deleuze und Guattari (Was ist Philosophie?) und eine profunde Neulektüre der Prozessphilosophie von Alfred N. Whitehead, auf der anderen der historische und politische Blick auf die Wissenschaften: von der Alchemie über Galilei bis hin zur neueren Biologie und Physik. Mitten im Krieg der Wissenschaften erhebt sich so eine Stimme der Diplomatie. Ihr geht es vor allem darum, die Herausforderungen und Risiken des Denkens und Handelns zu erhalten. Kein neuer Reduktionismus also, sondern eher eine zusätzliche Abstraktion, ein Denkabenteuer, das gleitend in eine neue Form der Politik übergeht: eine epistemische und ethisch-ästhetische „Kosmopolitik“. Isabelle Stengers, Philosophin, hat eine Professur an der Université Libre von Brüssel inne.

La sfida della complessità nasce dall'irruzione dell'incertezza nelle nostre conoscenze, dallo sgretolarsi dei miti che per secoli hanno regolato il cammino della scienza moderna. Ma d'altra parte la fine della certezza, della completezza, dell'esaustività e dell'onniscienza non segnala soltanto la fine di un ordine, ma rende ineludibile una trasformazione delle domande e delle risposte su cui è basato il nostro sapere. Chiamati a raccolta da Gianluca Bocchi e Mauro Ceruti a metà degli anni ottanta, scienziati e pensatori come Ilya Prigogine e Francisco Varela, Stephen Jay Gould e Heinz von Foerster presentano e confrontano i loro itinerari nella “nuova scienza”, in un'opera che ha mantenuto intatta la sua freschezza ed esemplarità.