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Making sense in common : a reading of Whitehead in times of collapse /

"Stengers recovers 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stengers, Isabelle (Author)
Other Authors: LaMarre, Thomas, 1959- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Series:Posthumanities ; 66.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Stengers recovers 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"--
Item Description:"Originally published in French as Reactiver le sens commun: Lecture de Whitehead en temps de debâcle. Copyright Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2020" --T.p.
Physical Description:1 online resource (197 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781452968902
145296890X
9781452968896
1452968896