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Order Out of Chaos

Man's New Dialogue with Nature

Man's New Dialogue with Nature

By Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
Foreword by Alvin Toffler

By Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
Foreword by Alvin Toffler

By Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
Foreword by Alvin Toffler

By Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
Foreword by Alvin Toffler

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Jan 23, 2018 | ISBN 9781786631008

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Jan 23, 2018 | ISBN 9781786631022

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    About Order Out of Chaos

    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.

    About Order Out of Chaos

    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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Science & Technology

    Paperback | $29.95
    Published by Verso
    Jan 23, 2018 | 384 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781786631008

    Category: Science & Technology

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Jan 23, 2018 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9781786631022

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    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

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