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    Order Out of Chaos

    Man's New Dialogue with Nature

    Part of Radical Thinkers

    Author Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers
    Foreword by Alvin Toffler
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    $29.95 US
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    5"W x 7.9"H x 1.2"D   | 15 oz | 32 per carton
    On sale Jan 23, 2018 | 384 Pages | 9781786631008
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    A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis

    Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.
    “A passionate meditation on Man and Universe.”
    —Italo Calvino

    “Astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging.”
    —Observer

    “An ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man.”
    —John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books

    “Brilliant, demanding, dazzling.”
    —Alvin Toffler
    Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her publications include Cosmopolitics. She received the Grand Prize for Philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.

    Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.
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    A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis

    Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.

    Praise

    “A passionate meditation on Man and Universe.”
    —Italo Calvino

    “Astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging.”
    —Observer

    “An ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man.”
    —John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books

    “Brilliant, demanding, dazzling.”
    —Alvin Toffler

    Author

    Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her publications include Cosmopolitics. She received the Grand Prize for Philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.

    Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.
    Ilya Prigogine View titles by Ilya Prigogine
    Isabelle Stengers View titles by Isabelle Stengers

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