Order from chaos. A new dialogue of man with nature. Prigozhin I.R., Stengers I.

The book of the famous Belgian physicist, the Laureate of the Nobel Prize I. Prigozhin and its co-author I. Stengers is devoted to the consideration of science and philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the standpoint of science of the second half of the XX century, as well as the problems and characteristics of modern scientific thinking. The purpose of the book is to comprehend the path traveled by science and knowledge, and to state the requirements of modern science and society to restore the union of man with nature on new grounds, in which there will be a unity of not only nature and man, but also science, culture and society. The authors give a deep historical and philosophical consideration of scientific knowledge, starting with Newton and Laplace and ending with its later criticism by modern Western philosophers.

is recommended both by specialists of natural-scientific and humanitarian disciplines, and a wide range of readers who are interested in the problems of modern Science.