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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838331803321

Autore

Stengers Isabelle

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stevenage : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-4529-6889-6

1-4529-6890-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

Posthumanities Series

Altri autori (Persone)

LamarreThomas

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Common sense

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in French as Reactiver le sens commun: Lecture de Whitehead en temps de debâcle. Copyright Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2020" --T.p.

Nota di contenuto

The question of common sense -- In the grip of bifurcation -- A coherence to be created -- What can a society do? -- A metamorphic universe.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--