Michel Serres : figures of thought /
Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences author of some seventy books and an 'immortal' member of the Acadamie francaise, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences author of some seventy books and an 'immortal' member of the Acadamie francaise, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental humanities. Chris Watkin provides the first introduction to the full breadth of Serres' work. Each chapter considers Serres' importance for one key contemporary debate, critically situating his well-known passages and books in their broader conceptual and intellectual context. You will discover that Serres' famous account of the quasi-object and his 'natural contract' are just the beginning of a sustained series of explorations encompassing philosophy, literary criticism, the sciences, technology, religion and art, all as participants in the same fundamental structures of communication. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [410]-446) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474405737 1474405738 9781474405744 1474405746 |