Isabelle Stengers

Isabelle Stengers, Professor of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, has written numerous books, among which the following have been published in English translation: In Catastrophic Times (2015), Women who Make a Fuss (2014) with Vinciane Despret, Cosmopolitics I and II (2010 and 2011),  Thinking with Whitehead (2011),  Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell (2011) with Philippe Pignarre, The Invention of Modern Science (2000), Power and Invention: Situating Science (1997), A History of Chemistry (1996) with Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, A Critique of Psychoanalytical Reason (1992) with Léon Chertok, and Order out of Chaos (1984) with Ilya Prigogine. Starting with the defense of the passionate adventure of physics against its enrolment as model of rationality and objectivity, she has developed the concept of an ecology of practices affirming a speculative constructivism in relation with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead and William James, and the anthropology of Bruno Latour.

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