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  • Humanistic Narratives
    Michel Serres / Randolph Burks
    Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescentand The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his ’grand story’ of humanity and humanism. This book weaves together and condenses the overriding philosophical narratives of the previous books and reflects upon Serres’ own humanist theoretical system. With characteristic breadth and imagination, in telling the...
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    114,98 €

  • 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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    141,09 €

  • Hominescence
    Michel Serres / Randolph Burks
    According to Michel Serres, a process of ’hominescence’ has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again but what does the future hold? In this innovative and passionately original w...
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    143,00 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    153,95 €

  • 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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    189,76 €

  • 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 €

  • Rome
    Michel Serres / Randolph Burks
    Michel Serres first book in his ’foundations trilogy’ is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Romeis an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built.With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation the roots of scientific k...
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    76,86 €

  • 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 €

  • Statues
    Michel Serres / Randolph Burks
    In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body...
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    86,14 €

  • 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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    111,97 €

  • 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 €

  • The Five Senses
    Michel Serres / Margaret Sankey / Peter Cowley
    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...
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    297,46 €