Isabelle Stengers
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Professor Isabelle Stengers (born 1949), is a Belgian philosopher and is the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers. She graduated in chemistry at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
[edit] Biography
Professor Stengers writes about the philosophy of science. Stengers holds her Professorship in the Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles[1] and received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.[2] Stengers has written on English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead;[3] other work has included Continental philosophers such as Michel Serres and Gilbert Simondon. Stengers has collaborated in the past with other philosophers including Leon Chertok,[4] Ilya Prigogine,[5] and Bruno Latour.[6]
[edit] Partial bibliography
- La Nouvelle Alliance (1979), together with Ilya Prigogine
- Prigogine I and Stengers I Order out of Chaos, University of Michigan: Bantam Books (1984)
- Stengers I and Chertok L, "A critique of psychoanalytic reason: hypnosis as a scientific problem from Lavoisier to Lacan", Noel Evans M (trans.), Stanford: Stanford University Press (1992)
- Prigogine I and Stengers I The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press (1997)
- Stengers I, Power and Invention: Situating Science, Bains P (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1997)
- Stengers I, The Invention of Modern Science, Smith D.W (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2000)
- Stengers I "Cosmopolitics I", Bononno, R (trans.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010)
- Stengers I and Pignarre P Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell, Goffey A (Trans.), Palgrave Macmillan (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ See: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/stengers_cosmopoliticsI.html and http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/isabelle-stengers
- ^ See: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/stengers_science.html
- ^ Penser avec Whitehead, Paris, Le Seuil, « L’ordre philosophique », 2002.
- ^ A critique of psychoanalytic reason: hypnosis as a scientific problem from Lavoisier to Lacan, Noel Evans M (trans.), Stanford: Stanford University Press (1992)
- ^ Order out of Chaos, University of Michigan: Bantam Books (1984) and The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press (1997)
- ^ See: Latour's forward to Stengers' Power and Invention, http://www.bruno-latour.fr/poparticles/poparticle/p070.html
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