Cosmopolitics II Contributor(s): Stengers, Isabelle (Author), Bononno, Robert (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0816656886 ISBN-13: 9780816656882 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
Dewey: 501 |
LCCN: 2010010387 |
Series: PostHumanities |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.45 lbs) 392 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 translations of the last four books: Quantum Mechanics: The End of the Dream, In the Name of the Arrow of Time: Prigogine's Challenge, Life and Artifice: The Faces of Emergence, and The Curse of Tolerance. Stengers concludes this philosophical inquiry with a forceful critique of tolerance; it is a fundamentally condescending attitude, she contends, that prevents those worldviews that challenge dominant explanatory systems from being taken seriously. Instead of tolerance, she proposes a "cosmopolitics" that rejects politics as a universal category and allows modern scientific practices to peacefully coexist with other forms of knowledge. |