Order Out of Chaos (Radical Thinkers)

She received the Grand Prize for Philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.Ilya Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. . Her publications include Cosmopolitics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977

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

Since its first publication in France in 1978, this book has sparked debate among physicists, philosophers, literary critics and historians.. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel and ambitious synthesis. 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. 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