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Cosmopolitics II by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.54Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and... -
Invention Of Modern Science by Isabelle Stengers 9780816630561
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816630561Author Isabelle StengersFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science Isabelle Stengers 9781509521814
RRP: $22.45Booksplease Price: $21.43Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific... -
Latour-Stengers: An Entangled Flight Philippe Pignarre 9781509555512
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy - and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few... -
Women Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf by Carolyn Holbrook 9781517907624
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned... -
Doctors and Healers Tobie Nathan 9781509521869
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any... -
A World of Many Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena 9781478002956
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.52A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors... -
From Montaigne to Montaigne by Claude Levi-Strauss 9781517906382
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist's intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne In January 1937, between the two... -
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory by Vinciane Despret
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon... -
Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose by Thom van Dooren
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and... -
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult... -
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene by Bruce Clarke
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s... -
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene by Travis Holloway
Booksplease Price: $16.86Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts,... -
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9781503637320
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.13Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene-an era many... -
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary...