Rich in ideas, but if poorly written

In his book, Isabelle Stengers demonstrates a very clear vision of the deadly and sharp features of our civilization and its economic system. This test provides a series of relevant ideas and gives us weapons to detect acts of manipulation of political power and economic sense lead us. He denounces what he calls the infernal alternative, "either you accept GMOs or you condone the failure of agriculture to feed the world", for example. It stigmatizes this knowledge economy that privatizes which should not be subject to appropriation, as the living.

But the writing style of Isabelle Stengers makes reading his book a chore. The ideas are great, but why are we exposed on so many convoluted sentences, jargonantes unnecessarily intellectualists often pathetically clumsy. I held out until the first half of the book, then I abdicated! What a relief when beginning a new work written clearly, with a thread that is still perfectly discernible in this case and in the same intellectual movement, the policy of the oxymoron: How those who govern us we hide the real world of Bertrand Méheust. If Mrs Stengers could be inspired stylistically ...!

So, to summarize, 5 stars for the concepts and the utility of the book, 1 star for the quality of writing. Average, 3 stars!