Reading with Michel Serres
Title | Reading with Michel Serres PDF eBook |
Author | Maria L. Assad |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791442296 |
Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Title | Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Serres |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780472065486 |
Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers
The Parasite
Title | The Parasite PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 254 |
Release | 1765 |
Genre | English fiction |
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The Natural Contract
Title | The Natural Contract PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Serres |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780472065493 |
Meditations on environmental change and the necessity of a pact between Earth and its inhabitants
MICHEL SERRES
Title | MICHEL SERRES PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Watkin |
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Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474405751 |
The Five Senses
Title | The Five Senses PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Serres |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1474299962 |
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
Rome
Title | Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Serres |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1472590163 |
Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation the roots of scientific knowledge to set theory and aesthetics. He explores the themes of violence, murder, sacrifice and hospitality in order to urge us to avoid the repetitive violence of founding. Rome also provides an alternative and creative reading of Livy's Ab urbe condita which sheds light on the problems of history, repetition and imitation. First published in English in 1991, re-translated and introduced in this new edition, Michel Serres' Rome is a contemporary classic which shows us how we came to live the way we do.