Cosmopolitics II

by Isabelle Stengers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816656894
• ISBN13: 9780816656899
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"