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  • The Parasite

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr ...
    Series Book 1 - Posthumanities
    Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Religion

    Rereading What Is Bound Together

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life.Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Variations on the Body

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Univocal
    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 ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Times of Crisis

    What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent our Lives and Future

    For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Biogea

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Univocal
    Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he names singularly as Biogea. In these times when species are disappearing, when catastrophic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis impale the earth, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Hermes III

    Translation

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious exploration of the deep interconnections among disparate fields of knowledge. While Hermes II: Interference traced the overlapping echoes of ideas across realms, Hermes III moves to translate the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Hermes II

    Interference

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Unveiling the hidden connections in the network of knowledgeHermes II: Interference is the second in a series of works by philosopher Michel Serres using Hermes, god of communication, as an archetypal symbolic figure for reflecting on philosophy and the arts and sciences. Serres delves into the concept of interreferentiality, proposing that every node—whether it be knowledge, objects, or people ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    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 ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Incandescent

    The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. With his characteristic breadth of references including art, poetry, science, philosophy and literature, Serres paints a new picture of what it might mean to live meaningfully in contemporary society. He tells the story of humankind (from ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Statues

    The Second Book of Foundations

    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Branches

    A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent

    Despite being one of France's most enduring and popular philosophers, Branches is the first English translation of what has been identified as Michel Serres' key text on humanism.In attempting to reconcile humanity and nature, Serres examines how human history 'branches' off from its origin story. Using the metaphor of a branch springing from the stem and arguing that the branch's originality ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Hermes I

    Communication

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Louise Burchill ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary worksMichel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon. His early five-volume series Hermes, which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, was an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD