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Order Out of Chaos
Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers
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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 synthesisOrder 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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- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2018-01-23
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Science / Chaotic Behavior in Systems, Nature / Ecology
- ISBN-13
- 9781786631008
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