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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. Rome is 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 knowledge to set theory and aesthetics. He explores the themes of violence, murder, sacrifice and hospitality in order to urge us to avoid the repetitive violence of founding. Rome also provides an alternative and creative reading of Livy's Ab urbe condita which sheds light on the problems of history, repetition and imitation.
First published in English in 1991, re-translated and introduced in this new edition, Michel Serres' Rome is a contemporary classic which shows us how we came to live the way we do.
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فن الجسور : الإنسان ابن الجسور
كتاب (فن الجسور : الإنسان ابن الجسور) لـ ميشيل سير هو احتفاء بالجسور التي تربط البشر ببعضهم البعض، مهما كانت طبيعتها، مادية، أو لامادية. يبوح ميشيل سيرا للجسور بولعه، فيجرنا إلى سطوحها، سواء أكانت من لحم أو من معدن، من حجر أو من كلمات. إنها قصيدة دوامة، عميقة ورشيقة، تدهشنا بقدر ما تثرينا.
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The five senses : a philosophy of mingled bodies
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 GÇö member of the Académie française and one of France's leading philosophers GÇö 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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Variations on the Body
World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. This work describes the variations, the admirable metamorphoses that the body can accomplish. While animals lack such a variety of gestures, postures, and movements, the fluidity of the human body mimics the leisure of living beings and things; what's more, it creates signs. Already here, within its movements and metamorphoses, the mind is born. The five senses are not the only source of knowledge: it emerges, in large part, from the imitations the plasticity of the body allows. In it, with it, by it knowledge begins.
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Light
Serres talks about the use of clear lines in comics. According to Chinese wisdom, thirty spokes converge on the hub of a wheel, but the small empty space at the center gives it its force, coherence, and function. Like a dawn light, more than twenty albums radiate out from Herge's life. Certainly, of all of the worthies and venerable personages that he has met in his life, he thinks he can say that Georges stands out as the only true genius. Genius is defined not only in terms of its ever-growing reputation, but above all by its secret relationship with the two most positive manifestations of life: the comic and childhood. Young nieces and white-haired uncles alike laugh together at Moliere and Aristophanes, whose force and vigor have never been surpassed.
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Feux et Signaux de Brume: Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse
[...]both the sciences and life experience know a “time” that the languages in question, at least to my knowledge, seem to ignore: the one that accumulates slowly behind a dike or a threshold, only to overwhelm it in an instant. First Answer to Berkeley’s Question Suddenly, the apparent descriptions of weather and duration, the animist culture itself, are charged with showing the solution to the Ramsay-Berkeley problem. Lily sets up her easel opposite the Window and there, in the first part, fails to complete her painting. Because the negentropic work is being accomplished under the living eyes of Mrs. Ramsay, by her beauty, by her ecstasy, by the almost eternal unity she gives to every scene, to the family, to the group, and even to the boeuf en daube—which is a triumph! [...]let us follow Philippe Descola’s lead, labeling this attitude naturalist, this assumption (which everyone takes for granted) that such a division exists between the world and ourselves, that such a radical, ontological separation exists between cultures and nature, between humans and non-humans.
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