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Michel Serres and French philosophy of science : materiality, ecology and quasi-objects /

Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of twentieth-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, he creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simons, Massimiliano (Author)
Other Authors: Serres, Michel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022].
Series:Michel Serres and material futures.
Subjects:
Serres, Michel.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Science > Philosophy.
Culture > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Surrationalism after Bachelard : Michel Serres and 'le nouveau nouvel esprit scientifique'
  • Michel Serres and the epistemological break
  • Purification as a practice of the self
  • French object-oriented philosophy in the 1970s : Serres, Dagognet, Latour
  • Brewers of time : Michel Serres and modernity
  • Thanatocracy and the anthropology of science
  • The secularization of science
  • The parliament of things and the Anthropocene : How to listen to quasi-objects.