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Making Sense in Common - A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse (Paperback)
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Making Sense in Common - A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse (Paperback)
Series: Posthumanities
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Loot Price R574
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A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a
meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous
books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured
a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but
also inspired a rethinking of critical theory, political thought,
and radical philosophy across a range of disciplines. Here,
Stengers unveils what might well be seen as her definitive reading
of Whitehead. Making Sense in Common will be greeted eagerly by the
growing group of scholars who use Stengers’s work on Whitehead as
a model for how to think with conceptual precision through diverse
domains of inquiry: environmentalism and ecology, animal studies,
media and technology studies, the history and philosophy of
science, feminism, and capitalism. On the other hand, the
significance of this new book extends beyond Whitehead. Instead, it
lies in Stengers’s recovery of the idea of “common sense” as
a meeting place—a commons—where opposed ideas of science and
humanistic inquiry can engage one another and help to move society
forward. Her reconciliation of science and philosophy is especially
urgent today—when climate disaster looms all around us, when the
values of what we thought of as civilization and modernity are
discredited, and when expertise of any kind is under attack.
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