LIBROS DEL AUTOR: randolph burks

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: randolph burks

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €