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  • Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers
    Michel Serres / Gila Walker
    In this late work by one of France’s most original philosophers, Michel Serres undertakes an extraordinary intellectual voyage through literature, science, anthropology and memory. Drawing on the anthropological theories of Philippe Descola, Serres re-examines Western culture through the lens of four fundamental worldviews: animism, totemism, naturalism and analogism.Moving eff...
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    17,75 €

  • Branches
    Michel Serres
    Despite being one of France’s most enduring and popular philosophers, Branches is the first English translation of what has been identified as Michel Serres’ key text on humanism. In attempting to reconcile humanity and nature, Serres examines how human history ’branches’ off from its origin story. Using the metaphor of a branch springing from the stem and arguing that the bran...
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    44,74 €

  • The Incandescent
    Michel Serres
    The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres’ classic ’Humanism’ tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. With his characteristic breadth of references including art, poetry, science, philosophy and literature, Serres paints a new picture of what it might mean to live meaningfully in contemporary society. He tells the story ...
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    47,14 €

  • Birth of Physics
    Michel Serres / David Webb / William James Ross
    Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres’ distinctive philosophy of science. ...
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    65,69 €

  • Geometry
    Michel Serres / Randolph Burks
    In this third installment of his classic ’Foundations’ trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics. Even more broadly, Geometry is the beginnings of things and also how these beginnings have shaped how we continue to think philosophically and critically. Serres rejects a traditional history of mathematics which unfolds in a linear manner, and argues ...
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    61,43 €

  • Times of Crisis
    Michel Serres / Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon
    For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, 'To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroyin...
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    29,27 €

  • Thumbelina
    Michel Serres / Daniel W. Smith / Daniel WSmith
    The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phone...
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    39,93 €

  • The Five Senses
    Michel Serres / Margaret Sankey / Peter Cowley
    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 t...
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    70,13 €