ISBN:
9781478025207
,
9781478020295
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 250 Seiten
Series Statement:
Experimental futures
Uniform Title:
Vierge et le neutrino
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stengers, Isabelle Virgin Mary and the neutrino
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stengers, Isabelle, 1949 - Virgin Mary and the neutrino
Keywords:
Science Philosophy
;
Science Social aspects
;
Feminist theory
;
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Abstract:
"In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and appearing here in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through the way they diverge from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from Dewey to Deleuze, she develops what she calls an "ecology of practices" into a capacious and heterogeneous perspective that is inclusive of cultural and political forces but not reducible to them. Stengers first advocates for an approach to sciences that would emphasize the way each should be situated by the kind of relationship demanded by what it attempts to address. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary-like the opposition between the neutrino and Virgin Mary. An ecology of practices stimulates instead an appetite for thinking reality not as an arbiter but as what we can relate with through the generation of diverging concerns and obligations"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Scientists in trouble -- The force of experimentation -- Dissolving amalgams -- The sciences in their milieus -- Troubling the public order -- Intermezzo: The creation of concepts -- On the same plane? -- We are not alone in the world -- Ecology of practices -- The cosmopolitical test.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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