Isabelle Stengers b. 1949
Isabelle Stengers (born 1949) is a Belgian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Process Philosophy.
Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher of science, originally trained as a chemist, and a leading interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead and Ilya Prigogine, with whom she co-authored Order Out of Chaos. Her seven-volume Cosmopolitics critically rethought the relations between scientific and political authority, arguing for an ecology of practices in which the modern division between facts and values, science and politics, is suspended. In Capitalist Sorcery, In Catastrophic Times, and Thinking with Whitehead she has developed a politics of the slow, the situated, and the cosmopolitical, attentive both to the demands of nonhuman beings and to the work of resisting capitalist enclosure.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Belgian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Process Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Isabelle Stengers:
“We must learn to think slowly, in catastrophic times.”
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Attributed to Isabelle Stengers:
“Another science is possible: a slow science.”
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Attributed to Isabelle Stengers:
“Cosmopolitics calls for a hesitation that resists the verdicts of the experts.”
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Attributed to Isabelle Stengers:
“There is no ready-made cosmos to which we may refer; the cosmos is what is at stake.”
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Attributed to Isabelle Stengers:
“Every practice carries with it its own demands and its own obligations.”
Frequently asked about Isabelle Stengers
- When was Isabelle Stengers born?
- Isabelle Stengers was born in 1949.
- Where was Isabelle Stengers from?
- Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Isabelle Stengers associated with?
- Isabelle Stengers is associated with Continental Philosophy and Process Philosophy.
- What is Isabelle Stengers known for?
- Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher of science, originally trained as a chemist, and a leading interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead and Ilya Prigogine, with whom she co-authored Order Out of Chaos.
- How many quotes are attributed to Isabelle Stengers?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Isabelle Stengers in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.