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Title: Power and Invention: Situating Science (Theory Out of Bounds Series , Vo 10) by Isabelle Stengers ISBN: 0-8166-2517-4 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Summary: Insightful
Comment: Stengers is best known for her collaborations with the physicist Ilya Prigogine, these dense, difficult, and topic-specific works. The collected essays here are indicative of a broad range of topics that will interested non-specialists.
Stengers's reflections on science situate her between Kuhn and Deleuze, a strange but potent mixture. Add to this, the work of Barbara McClintock as an exemplar of the scientist, Stengers demonstrates her status as the most insightful and relevent thinker of science today, perhaps the most philosophical of them all. I say 'philosophical' because Stengers interest always rises above the issues raging in philosophy of science, history of science and the sociology of science. To be philosophical means to extend the implications beyond the technical and theoretical domains, to pose the questions in terms of what Stengers calls the 'ethicophilosophical order.' It is not to conflate politics and science, but rather, to suspend judgment, to remain within the tension, to understand and to stretch the possibility of imagination.
To borrow a metaphor from Feyerabend: how can a gang of thieves ever be responsible? Stengers does not judge science on moral grounds. Contrary to Feyerabend's mistrust of science, stengers regards science as an inherently social and passionate activity. Key terms for her are 'jouissance' and 'mutual arousal' between parties. Responsibility in science, ethics in science, isn't to judge it from the outside, but to tease the philosophical implications of the activities in science.
In all, these sample essays will demonstrate the originality of Stenger's work. Furthermore, they are persuasive reminders of why science still matters to us; why we are still 'interested' in science.
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Title: The Invention of Modern Science (THEORY OUT OF BOUNDS) by Isabelle Stengers, Daniel W. Smith ISBN: 0816630569 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 16 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness by Donna Haraway ISBN: 0971757585 Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Philosophy of Technology) by Evan Selinger, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, Bruno Latour, Andrew Pickering ISBN: 0253216060 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Politics of Nature : How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy by Bruno Latour ISBN: 0674013476 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 30 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Science and Cultural Theory) by John Law, Annemarie Mol ISBN: 0822328461 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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