Variations on the Body (Univocal) - Softcover

Serres, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937561062 ISBN 13: 9781937561062

Publisher: Univocal Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. This work describes the variations, the admirable metamorphoses that the body can accomplish. While animals lack such a variety of gestures, postures, and movements, the fluidity of the human body mimics the leisure of living beings and things; what’s more, it creates signs. Already here, within its movements and metamorphoses, the mind is born. The five senses are not the only source of knowledge: it emerges, in large part, from the imitations the plasticity of the body allows. In it, with it, by it knowledge begins.

About this title

About the Author:

Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science.

Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univocal Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1937561062
• ISBN 13: 9781937561062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152