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Book Description: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., United Kingdom, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 234 x 156 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This book represents a defining break in Michel Serres' work, leaving behind traditional philosophy to explore the history and culture of science. Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres - member of the Academie francaise and one of France's leading philosophers - 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 catalogue 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?. Bookseller Inventory # AAJ9780826459848

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Book Description: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies, Michel Serres, Margaret Sankey, Peter Cowley, Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, this book demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. Bookseller Inventory # B9780826459848

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Book Description: Continuum Intl. Book Condition: BRAND NEW. BRAND NEW Hardcover Publisher List Price= $130 A Brand New Quality Book from a Full-Time Bookshop in business since 1992!. Bookseller Inventory # 559460

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Book Description: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.20x6.20x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0826459846

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