Five Senses (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Antal sidor
364
Utgivningsdatum
2008-12-11
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Översättare
Margaret Sankey, Peter Cowley
Originalspråk
Engelska
Dimensioner
235 x 156 x 20 mm
Vikt
556 g
ISBN
9780826459855

Five Senses

A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

av Michel Serres
Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-12-11
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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.

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Michel Serres is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA. 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. Peter Cowley lectures in French Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also Director of Translation Studies.

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