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The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Michel Serres
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Description for The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Paperback. Translation of: Les cinq sens / Michel Serres. paris: Grasset, c1985. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 217 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres 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 catalog 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 ... Read more
Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres 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 catalog 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Bloomsbury Revelations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474299640
SKU
V9781474299640
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About Michel Serres
Michel Serres is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA, and a member of the Academie Francaise. He is the author of Eyes (2015), Statues and Times of Crisis (2014) all published by Bloomsbury.
Reviews for The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Finding a voice that is brilliantly sustained, warm and assured, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley meet the challenges of Serres' shifts of register between prose poetry and high-frequency allusions to philosophy and the sciences and literature classical and modern.
Max Deutscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia
Some may claim that Serres's works are impossible to translate ... Read more
Max Deutscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia
Some may claim that Serres's works are impossible to translate ... Read more