Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Michael Chase ; foreword by Bruno Latour
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xix, 531 pages ;
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25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword: What is given in experience? / Bruno Latour -- Introduction: Whitehead today? -- Part I: From the philosophy of nature to metaphysics -- The mathematician and the sunset -- Events and passage -- The foothold of the mind -- There it is again -- Attention to objects -- The ingression of scientific objects -- Interlude: a pragmatics of concepts -- Science and the modern world: a strange book -- A new epoch? -- From the concept of nature to the order of nature -- Scientific objects and the test of the organism -- The event from its own standpoint? -- Entry into metaphysics -- The great refusal -- Part II: Cosmology -- Hic circuli, hic saltus -- Thinking under the constraint of creativity -- The risks of speculative interpretation -- Feeling one's world -- Justifying life? -- The adventure of the senses -- Actuality between physics and the divine -- And they became souls -- Modes of existence, modes of thought -- God and the world -- An adventure of ideas -- Conclusion: Word of a dragon, word of trance