Author : Maria L. Assad
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065486
Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1765
Category : English fiction
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Author : Christopher Watkin
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File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9781474405751
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065493
Meditations on environmental change and the necessity of a pact between Earth and its inhabitants
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : 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.
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1786606267
The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence, which impacts our understanding of the recent disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and has been enormously influential on work in the area, amongst other things stimulating a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients.
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472065516
A meditatation on the nature of education and the necessity of cross-disciplinarity
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : 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.
Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472084357
A lyrical, breathtaking exploration of the chaos and multiplicity that underlie imposed conventions of order
