A leading philosopher seeks to recover common sense? as a meeting place to reconcile science
and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead Isabelle Stengers not only
secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but also inspired a
rethinking of critical theory political thought and radical philosophy across a range of
disciplines. Here Stengers unveils what might well be seen as her definitive reading of
Whitehead. Making Sense in Common will be greeted eagerly by the growing group of scholars who
use Stengers's work on Whitehead as a model for how to think with conceptual precision through
diverse domains of inquiry: environmentalism and ecology animal studies media and technology
studies the history and philosophy of science feminism and capitalism. On the other hand
the significance of this new book extends beyond Whitehead. Instead it lies in Stengers's
recovery of the idea of common sense? as a meeting place?a commons?where opposed ideas of
science and humanistic inquiry can engage one another and help to move society forward. Her
reconciliation of science and philosophy is especially urgent today?when climate disaster looms
all around us when the values of what we thought of as civilization and modernity are
discredited and when expertise of any kind is under attack.
