by Isabelle Stengers · Editions La Découverte · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782707141712
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«Cosmopolitiques II» is Isabelle Stengers's essay on the philosophy of science, published by La Découverte in paperback (402 pages, in French).
Isabelle Stengers investigates why science presents itself as triumphant knowledge and why it advances belligerently before public opinion. Using cases such as quantum mechanics, Prigogine's arrow of time and the emergence of life, she proposes civilising scientific passions and asks whether modern and non-modern practices can coexist peacefully.
Second volume of the work Cosmopolitiques, originally published in seven volumes. French edition from La Découverte's Poche Sciences humaines et sociales collection.
For readers interested in the philosophy of science and the debate on the social place of scientific knowledge.
Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher, noted for her work in the philosophy of science. Trained as a chemist, she has collaborated with Russian-Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine and French philosopher/sociologist Bruno Latour among others, and has written widely on the history of science as well as philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead, Donna Haraway, and Michel Serres.
