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

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of...
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Author: Michel Serres
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The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Serres, Michel

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

Dhs. 286.17

The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

Dhs. 286.17
Author: Michel Serres
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 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?

The book won the inaugural Prix M dicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.

Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 10/20/2016
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781474299640

About the Author
Michel Serres is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA, and a member of the Académie Française. He is the author of Eyes (2015), Statues and Times of Crisis (2014) all published by Bloomsbury.


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