The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers
Over more than four decades, the work of Isabelle Stengers has ranged widely across many different subjects, from the practices of physics, biology and chemistry to psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry, ecology, gender, climate change, animism, capitalism, witchcraft, medicine, drugs and the history of philosophy.

Providing a comprehensive overview of Stengers’ work, this book situates her as a primary figure in a philosophical tradition extending from Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, William James, Henri Bergson and Felix Guattari to perhaps her main precursors, Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. In doing so, it explores how Stengers’ constructivism resists the hierarchical binarity characteristic of modernity, constructing the means to create coherence among problematic differences, a creation which could potentially transform the binary constructions of gender, capitalism and climate change.

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The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers
Over more than four decades, the work of Isabelle Stengers has ranged widely across many different subjects, from the practices of physics, biology and chemistry to psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry, ecology, gender, climate change, animism, capitalism, witchcraft, medicine, drugs and the history of philosophy.

Providing a comprehensive overview of Stengers’ work, this book situates her as a primary figure in a philosophical tradition extending from Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, William James, Henri Bergson and Felix Guattari to perhaps her main precursors, Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. In doing so, it explores how Stengers’ constructivism resists the hierarchical binarity characteristic of modernity, constructing the means to create coherence among problematic differences, a creation which could potentially transform the binary constructions of gender, capitalism and climate change.

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The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers

The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers

by Grant Maxwell
The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers

The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers

by Grant Maxwell

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Over more than four decades, the work of Isabelle Stengers has ranged widely across many different subjects, from the practices of physics, biology and chemistry to psychoanalysis, ethnopsychiatry, ecology, gender, climate change, animism, capitalism, witchcraft, medicine, drugs and the history of philosophy.

Providing a comprehensive overview of Stengers’ work, this book situates her as a primary figure in a philosophical tradition extending from Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, William James, Henri Bergson and Felix Guattari to perhaps her main precursors, Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. In doing so, it explores how Stengers’ constructivism resists the hierarchical binarity characteristic of modernity, constructing the means to create coherence among problematic differences, a creation which could potentially transform the binary constructions of gender, capitalism and climate change.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399540636
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 01/31/2026
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Grant Maxwell is a philosopher whose books include Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic (Routledge, 2022) and Deleuze and Polytheism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He has served as a Professor at Baruch College and Lehman College in New York, and he has published articles and chapters with Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Penn State Press, the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, the American Philosophical Association blog, and Interalia Magazine. He holds a PhD from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and he lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Unfaithful Heir to Whitehead and Deleuze

  1. Constructivism
  2. Peace Fabrication
  3. Resistance to the Present
  4. Reclaiming Nonmodern Practices

Conclusion: Fighting for Peace

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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