Cosmopolitics II

Trained as a chemist and philosopher, Isabelle Stengers has authored or coauthored more than twenty-five books and two hundred articles on the philosophy of science. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked with Nobel Prize recipient Ilya Prigogine, with whom she wrote Order out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. Her interests include chaos theory, the history of science, the popularization of the sciences, and the contested status of hypnosis as a legitimate form of psychotherapy. She is a professor of philosophy at the UniversitÉ Libre de Bruxelles. Her books Power and Invention: Situating Science (1997), The Invention of Modern Science (2000), and Cosmopolitics I (2010) have been translated into English and published by the University of Minnesota Press.Robert Bononno has translated more than a dozen books, including Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam by Fethi Benslama (Minnesota, 2009) and Decolonization and the Decolonized by Albert Memmi (Minnesota, 2006).

• ContentsPrefaceBook IV. Quantum Mechanics: The End of the Dream1. Atoms Exist!2. Abandon the Dream?3. Niels Bohr’s Lesson4. Quantum Irony5. The Physicists’ Double Standard6. The Silent Descendant of the Queen of HeavenBook V. In the Name of the Arrow of Time: Prigogine’s Challenge7. The Arrow of Time8. Boltzmann’s Successor9. Boltzmann’s Heir10. The Obligations of Chaos11. The Laws of Chaos?12. The Passion of the LawBook VI. Life and Artifice: The Faces of Emergence13. The Question of Emergence14. The Practices of Emergence15. Dissipative Coherence16. Artifice and Life17. The Art of Models18. Transition to the LimitBook VII. The Curse of Tolerance19. The Curse of Tolerance20. The Curse as Test21. Anxiety and Fright22. The Politics of Technical Inventions23. The Cosmopolitical Question24. Nomadic and Sedentary25. The Betrayal of the Diplomats26. The Diplomat’s Peace27. Calculemus28. The Final ChallengeNotesIndex