Isabelle Stengers
Philosopher, Author
1949 –
Who is Isabelle Stengers?
Isabelle Stengers is a Belgian philosopher and daughter of historian Jean Stengers. Stengers graduated with a degree in chemistry from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is the author of books on Chaos Theory, with Ilya Prigogine, the Russian-Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility, especially Order out of Chaos and The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature. Stengers and Prigogine often draw from the work of Deleuze; treating him as an important philosophical source to think through questions regarding irreversibility and the universe as an open system.
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- Born
- 1949
- Parents
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Profession
- Education
- Université Libre de Bruxelles
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on July 23, 2013
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