Author: Massimiliano Simons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135024788X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.
Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science
Author: Massimiliano Simons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135024788X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135024788X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers
Reading with Michel Serres
Author: Maria L. Assad
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791442296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791442296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
Genesis
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A lyrical, breathtaking exploration of the chaos and multiplicity that underlie imposed conventions of order
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A lyrical, breathtaking exploration of the chaos and multiplicity that underlie imposed conventions of order
French Philosophy Today
Author: Christopher Watkin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474414745
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
No detailed description available for "French Philosophy Today".
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474414745
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
No detailed description available for "French Philosophy Today".
The Troubadour of Knowledge
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065516
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A meditatation on the nature of education and the necessity of cross-disciplinarity
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065516
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A meditatation on the nature of education and the necessity of cross-disciplinarity
The Five Senses
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474299962
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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 Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474299962
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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 Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
The Birth of Physics
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786606267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence, which impacts our understanding of the recent disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and has been enormously influential on work in the area, amongst other things stimulating a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786606267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence, which impacts our understanding of the recent disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and has been enormously influential on work in the area, amongst other things stimulating a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients.
The Parasite. ...
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Hermes--literature, Science, Philosophy
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description