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Virgin Mary and the Neutrino Isabelle Stengers

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino By Isabelle Stengers

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino by Isabelle Stengers


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Isabelle Stengers addresses the challenges of situating modern, scientific, and technical practices of thinking without falling into the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary.

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino Summary

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabelle Stengers

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other. Drawing on thinkers ranging from John Dewey to Gilles 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 relationships demanded by what it attempts to address. This approach turns away from the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary-like the opposition between the neutrino and the Virgin Mary. An ecology of practices instead stimulates an appetite for thinking reality not as an arbiter but as what we can relate to through the generation of diverging concerns and obligations.

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino Reviews

Virgin Mary and the Neutrino is an extraordinary exploration of the events that have shaped the relationship between scientific practices and the public-the devastating effects of which we see today, especially in ecological situations. It is also the best introduction to Isabelle Stengers's body of work, which is undoubtedly one of the most important and original in contemporary thought. -- Didier Debaise, author of * Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible *
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino counts among the contemporary classics written by one of the most creative and boldest philosophers of science. Isabelle Stengers's proposals have the inevitable quality of inducing thought. This book will initiate anyone, no matter the stage of their career, who wants to become familiar with Stengers's inspiring brilliance. -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *

About Isabelle Stengers

Isabelle Stengers is Emerita Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and is the author of numerous books, including Making Sense in Common: A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse, Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science, and In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism.

Andrew Goffey is Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface vii
1. Scientists in Trouble 1
2. The Force of Experimentation 17
3. Dissolving Amalgams 38
4. The Sciences in Their Milieus 61
5.Troubling the Public Order 86
Intermezzo: The Creation of Concepts 111
6. On the Same Plane? 119
7. We Are Not Alone in the World 144
8. Ecology of Practices 169
9. The Cosmopolitical Test 197
Appendix: The First Experimental Apparatus? 207
Notes 217
Bibliography 235
Index 241

Additional information

NGR9781478025207
9781478025207
1478025204
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabelle Stengers
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-11-03
264
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