About the book: 1986 / The book by the famous Belgian physical chemist, Nobel Prize winner I. Prigogine and his co-author I. Stengers is devoted to the consideration of science and philosophy XIX and XX centuries from the standpoint of science of the second half of our century, as well as the problems and features of modern scientific thinking. The purpose of the book is to comprehend the path traveled by science and knowledge, and to set out the demands of modern science and society: to restore the union of man with nature on new grounds, in which there will be not only the unity of nature and man, but also science, culture and society. The authors provide a broad and deep historical, scientific and philosophical examination of scientific knowledge, starting with Newton, Laplace and ending with its later criticism by modern bourgeois philosophers.