Stengers, Isabelle
Cosmopolitics I
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816656875
- author:
- Stengers, Isabelle
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 21.3 x 14 x 2 cm
- Genre:
- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cosmopolitics by Isabelle Stengers explores the role and authority of science in modern societies. In this sweeping work of philosophical inquiry, Stengers challenges the pretensions of science to objectivity, rationality, and truth. Stengers argues that science is a constructive enterprise, shaped by specific practices and processes that help form physical-mathematical intelligibility. She examines key concepts in modern science, including quantum theory, biological reductionism, and the power relations at work in social sciences. By focusing on the polemical and creative aspects of these themes, Stengers advocates for an ecology of practices that considers how scientific knowledge evolves and its impact. This perspective demands that competing practices and interests be taken seriously, posing a profound political and ethical challenge to our understanding of science's authority.
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