The Five Senses
A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Available for the first time in English!Winner of the Prix Médicis Essai! 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 - a member of the Académie Française 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Sankey, Margaret (Übers.) / Cowley, Peter (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-2220-9
- EAN: 9781441122209
- Produktnummer: 13830786
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 364 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'066 KB
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Michel Serres was Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française, France. A renowned and popular philosopher, he was a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses (2008), Genesis (1995), and Biogée (2013).
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