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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x31 mm, kaal: 413 g
  • Sari: Radical Thinkers Set 15
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2018
  • Kirjastus: Verso Books
  • ISBN-10: 1786631008
  • ISBN-13: 9781786631008
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 198x129x31 mm, kaal: 413 g
  • Sari: Radical Thinkers Set 15
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2018
  • Kirjastus: Verso Books
  • ISBN-10: 1786631008
  • ISBN-13: 9781786631008
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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 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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A passionate meditation on Man and Universe -- Italo Calvino A book filled with flashing insights that subvertmany of our most basic assumptions and suggest fresh ways to think about them.brilliant, demanding, dazzling -- Alvin Toffler An astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging bookwhich reaches deep not only into physical and chemical theory, but also intothe history and philosophy of science * Observer * This is 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 *

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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 synthesis.
Foreword: Science and Change xi
Alvin Loftier
Preface: Man's New Dialogue with Nature xxvii
Introduction: The Challenge to Science 1(26)
Book One The Delusion of the Universal
Chapter I The Triumph of Reason
27(30)
1 The New Moses
27(3)
2 A Dehumanized World
30(7)
3 The Newtonian Synthesis
37(4)
4 The Experimental Dialogue
41(3)
5 The Myth at the Origin of Science
44(7)
6 The Limits of Classical Science
51(6)
Chapter II The Identification of the Real
57(22)
1 Newton's Laws
57(5)
2 Motion and Change
62(6)
3 The Language of Dynamics
68(7)
4 Laplace's Demon
75(4)
Chapter III The Two Cultures
79(24)
1 Diderot and the Discourse of the Living
79(7)
2 Kant's Critical Ratification
86(3)
3 A Philosophy of Nature? Hegel and Bergson
89(4)
4 Process and Reality: Whitehead
93(3)
5 "Ignoramus, Ignoramibus": The Positivist's Strain
96(2)
6 A New Start
98(5)
Book Two The Science of Complexity
Chapter IV Energy and the Industrial Age
103(28)
1 Heat, the Rival of Gravitation
103(4)
2 The Principle of the Conservation of Energy
107(4)
3 Heat Engines and the Arrow of Time
111(4)
4 From Technology to Cosmology
115(2)
5 The Birth of Entropy
117(5)
6 Boltzmann's Order Principle
122(5)
7 Carnot and Darwin
127(4)
Chapter V The Three Stages of Thermodynamics
131(46)
1 Flux and Force
131(6)
2 Linear Thermodynamics
137(3)
3 Far from Equilibrium
140(6)
4 Beyond the Threshold of Chemical Instability
146(7)
5 The Encounter with Molecular Biology
153(7)
6 Bifurcations and Symmetry-Breaking
160(7)
7 Cascading Bifurcations and the Transitions to Chaos
167(4)
8 From Euclid to Aristotle
171(6)
Chapter VI Order Through Fluctuations
177(36)
1 Fluctuations and Chemistry
177(2)
2 Fluctuations and Correlations
179(2)
3 The Amplification of Fluctuations
181(8)
4 Structural Stability
189(3)
5 Logistic Evolution
192(4)
6 Evolutionary Feedback
196(7)
7 Modelizations of Complexity
203(4)
8 An Open World
207(6)
Book Three From Being to Becoming
Chapter CII Rediscovering Time
213(20)
1 A Change of Emphasis
213(4)
2 The End of Universality
217(1)
3 The Rise of Quantum Mechanics
218(4)
4 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relation
222(4)
5 The Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems
226(3)
6 A Nonequilibrium Universe
229(4)
Chapter VIII The Clash of Doctrines
233(24)
1 Probability and Irreversibility
233(7)
2 Boltzmann's Breakthrough
240(3)
3 Questioning Boltzmann's Interpretation
243(4)
4 Dynamics and Thermodynamics: Two Separate Worlds
247(6)
5 Boltzmann and the Arrow of Time
253(4)
Chapter IX Irreversibility---the Entropy Barrier
257(34)
1 Entropy and the Arrow of Time
257(3)
2 Irreversibility as a Symmetry-Breaking Process
260(1)
3 The Limits of Classical Concepts
261(3)
4 The Renewal of Dynamics
264(8)
5 From Randomness to Irreversibility
272(5)
6 The Entropy Barrier
277(3)
7 The Dynamics of Correlations
280(5)
8 Entropy as a Selection Principle
285(1)
9 Active Matter
286(5)
CONCLUSIONS: From Earth to Heaven---the Reenchantment of Nature
291(24)
1 An Open Science
291(2)
2 Time and Times
293(2)
3 The Entropy Barrier
295(2)
4 The Evolutionary Paradigm
297(1)
5 Actors and Spectators
298(3)
6 A Whirlwind in a Turbulent Nature
301(4)
7 Beyond Tautology
305(2)
8 The Creative Course of Time
307(4)
9 The Human Condition
311(1)
10 The Renewal of Nature
312(3)
Notes 315(20)
Index 335
Isabelle Stengers is a professor of philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Trained as a chemist and philosopher, her publications include Cosmopolitics, a comprehensive reconsideration of the entire history of modern science from Galileo to contemporary complexity theory. She received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993.

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977.