Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers

Name: Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers
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SKU: 9780645464894
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by Michel Serres , Gila Walker

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ISBN13: 9780645464894
Binding: Paperback
Subject: N/A
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Publisher Imprint: Gazebo Books
Publication Date: December 1, 2022
Pages: 180
Original Price: GBP 13.99
Language: English
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Item Weight: 182 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Epistemology

About The Book

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 effortlessly between personal recollection, philosophical reflection and literary criticism, Serres traces hidden continuities between ancient myth, modern science, rural life, religion and contemporary thought. Wolves, rivers, fables, plants, saints, scientists and philosophers all become part of a vast comparative map of human understanding. In luminous, aphoristic prose, he asks whether the supposedly rational West has ever truly abandoned the "wild thought" it claims to have surpassed.

Part memoir, part philosophical meditation and part anthropological exploration, Around the World with Writers, Scientists and Philosophers is both playful and profound. Serres ranges from Jean de La Fontaine and Gustave Flaubert to botany, folklore and the origins of scientific thinking, revealing unexpected relationships between literature, ecology and knowledge itself.

Written with wit, erudition and imaginative freedom, this remarkable work offers a sweeping reconsideration of how humans relate to animals, landscapes, objects and one another - and proposes a radically interconnected vision of culture and thought.

About The Author

Serres, Michel: - "Michel Serres (1930 - 2019) was one of the most influential thinkers of recent decades.He was a member of the Académie Française and professor at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous essays on philosophy and the history of science.Serres's books include The Parasite (1980), The Five senses (1985), The Natural Contract, (1990), Hominescence (2001), and a series of volumes about communication called Hermes (1969; 1972; 1974; 1980).His recent works include Petite Poucette (2012, Thumbelina) and C'était mieux avant! (2017, Things Were Better in the Old Days), which were lauded by the press.Serres was one of the few contemporary philosophers to associate science and culture in his vision of the world. His work is translated into more than twenty languages."

Walker, Gila: - Gila Walker is the translator of more than a hundred books and articles from French, including essays by Jacques Derrida, Tzvetan Todorov, Maurice Maeterlinck, Michel Serres and Georges Didi-Huberman, and an award-winning novel by Léonora Miano, Season of the Shadow. Among her published translations at Gazebo Books are Shades of Black by Nathalie Etoké, Blind Spot by Myriam Tadessé and the forthcoming Around the World with Writers, Scientists and Philosophers by Michel Serres.

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