The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Serres, Michel

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826459855)

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The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Serres, Michel

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

$54.95
The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Serres, Michel

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

$54.95
Format: Paperback
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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 member of the Acad mie franaise 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 divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalogue 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 wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could.

Author: Michel Serres
ISBN-10: 0826459854
ISBN-13: 9780826459855
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.00w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 2
By Michel Serres
By Michel Serres
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Michel Serres is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA. Peter Cowley lectures in French Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also Director of Translation Studies. Margaret Sankey is the McCaughey Professor of French Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, and joint translator of "The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary" by the French sociologist Gilbert Durand.

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