Order Out of Chaos Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
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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.
A passionate meditation on Man and Universe
- Italo Calvino,
A book filled with flashing insights that subvertmany of our most basic assumptions and suggest fresh ways to think about them.brilliant, demanding, dazzling
- Alvin Toffler,
An astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging bookwhich reaches deep not only into physical and chemical theory, but also intothe history and philosophy of science
Observer
This is an ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man.
- John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books
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Biographical note
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.