Order Out of Chaos

Man’s New Dialogue with Nature

Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2018
Verso Books (Verlag)
9781786631008 (ISBN)

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A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis.

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 of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.

Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Trained as a chemist and philosopher, her publications include Cosmopolitics, a comprehensive reconsideration of the entire history of modern science from Galileo to contemporary complexity theory. She received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993. Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Radical Thinkers
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-13	9781786631008 / 9781786631008
Zustand	Neuware