Michel Serres

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Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

Michel Serres

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Other editions: Softcover - 2008

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Le Tragique Et La Pitie: Discours De Reception De Rene Girard a L'Academie Francaise Et Reponse De Michel Serres

Michel Serres; Rene Girard; Academie francaise

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Historia de las ciencias/ History of Science

Michel Serres

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Carpaccio: Les Esclaves Liberes

Michel Serres

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Atlas

Michel Serres

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Other editions: 1994

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The Parasite

Michel Serres

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1982, 1980

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Petites Chroniques Du Dimanche Soir

Michel Serres; Michel Polacco; Jean-Christophe Ogier; Barbara Merle

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L'odyssee Jules Verne

Michel Serres; Jean-Yves Tadie

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Rameaux

Michel Serres

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Jules Verne, La Science Et L'homme Contemporain: Conversations Avec Jean-Paul Dekiss

Michel Serres; Jean-Paul Dekiss

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Elements D'histoire Des Sciences

Michel Serres; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

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L'incandescent: Essais

Michel Serres

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Hominescence: Essais

Michel Serres

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The Birth of Physics

Michel Serres

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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Retour Au Contrat Naturel

Michel Serres; Bibliotheque Nationale (France)

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Cours De Philosophie Positive

Michel Serres; Auguste Comte; Francois Dagognet; Allal Sinaceur

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The Troubadour of Knowledge

Michel Serres

What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel Serres, all of these forms of pedagogy require painful yet exhilarating departures from home and encounters with Otherness. Like a swimmer who plunges into the river's current to reach the opposite bank, the person who wishes to learn must risk a voyage from the familiar to the strange. True education, Serres writes, takes place in the fluid middle of this crossing. To be educated is to become a harlequin, a crossbreed, a hybrid of our origins--like a newborn child, complexly produced as a mixture of maternal and paternal genes, yet independent existence, separated from the familiar and determined. In this wide-ranging meditation on learning and difference, Serres--the scientist turned epistemologist, philosopher turned moralist, reveler of being a half-breed from every point of view--explores numerous pathways in philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best contemporary education requires knowledge of both science's general truths and literature's singular stories. He heralds a new pedagogy which claims that from the crossbreeding of the humanities and the sciences a new educational ideal can be born: the troubadour of knowledge. With his agile and poetic voice, Serres has created a meditation of precisely this pluralistic creation, deftly recognizing it as a third party bred not of orderly dialectics but of the destabilizing multiplicity of the present age. Those who know the enormous range and clarity of this thinker will welcome this latest volume translated into English by Sheila Glaser with the assistance of William Paulson.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Genesis

Michel Serres

Serres draws on a vast knowledge of anthropology, classical history, music, theology, art history, information theory, physics, biology, dance and athletics, and Western metaphysics and on a range of writers that includes Plato, Leibniz, Kant, August Comte, Georges Dumezil, Rene Girard, Racine, La Fontaine, Beaumarchais, Balzac, and Shakespeare. He argues that, although philosophy has been instrumental in the past in establishing laws of logic and rationality that have been crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our universe, one of the most pressing tasks of thought today is to recognize that such pockets of unity are islands of order in a sea of multiplicity - a sea that cannot really be conceived but that perhaps can still be sensed, felt, and heard raging in chaos beneath the momentary crests of order imposed by human civilization. Philosophy of science or prose poetry, a classical meditation on metaphysics or a stream-of-consciousness polemic and veiled invective - Genesis may be all of these and more. Serres mounts a polemical, quirky, at times rhapsodical, but above all "noisy", critique of traditional and current models in social theory, historiography, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and metaphysics. The result is a work that is at once provocative, poetic, deeply personal, and ultimately religious - an apocalyptic call for the rebirth of philosophy as the art of thinking the unthinkable.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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Le Tresor: Dictionnaire Des Sciences

Michel Serres; Nayla Farouki

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Nouvelles Du Monde

Michel Serres

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Michel Serres; William Paulson

In this translation of his influential book 1990 book "Le Contrat Naturel", Serres calls for natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants, as global environmental change forces us to reconsider our relationship to nature. World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. That history, according to Serres, must now include the violence humans perpetuate upon the earth and the violence Earth poses to human life in response. He believes that, just as a social contract once brought order to human relations, a "natural contract" with the earth is necessary to establish balance and reciprocity with the planet that gives us life. Serres sees humanity as a spacecraft that with the help of science and technology has cast off from familiar moorings. Instead we find a network of relations both stranger and stronger than any we have ever known, binding us to one another and to the world. The philosopher's harrowing and joyous task, Serres tells us, is that of comprehending and experiencing the bonds of violence and love that unite us in our spacewalk to mother earth.

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Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time

Michel Serres; Bruno Latour

Although elected to the prestigious Academie Francaise in 1990, Michele Serres has long been considered a maverick-a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science, and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In five lively interviews with sociologists Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that inspire his highly original, challenging, and transdisciplinary essays.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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Angels: A Modern Myth

Michel Serres

In this new work Michel Serres, France's foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of modern life. Divided, as between Heaven and Hell, into First and Third Worlds, our societies search for ways to make contact, both by means of the most basic interpersonal relations and high-tech communications. The role of the messenger, Serres argues, is as important now as it was in Biblical times, perhaps more, and yet we lack a philosophy which can explain this role - a philosophy of movement, of communication. Angels: A Modern Myth offers such a philosophy, showing how angels as message-bearers are still part of our modern world, our means of bringing together and understanding science, law, and religion, and perhaps also the means of satisfying our need for reason, justice, and consolation. Abundantly illustrated with an astounding breadth of images ranging from Renaissance paintings to film stills, satellite photographs, computer microchips, and medical microscopy, this thought-provoking book addresses some of the most crucial issues of our time and will make essential reading for anyone seeking to comprehend the new phase of human development engendered by the transformation of our world by information technology.

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Les Messages a Distance

Michel Serres

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Eloge De La Philosophie En Langue Francaise

Michel Serres

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