Michel Serres: The Five Senses | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780826459855 | The Five Senses | A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies | Michel Serres

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Michel Serres

Zusammenfassung

Body theory and the cultural history of the body are strong topics across the humanities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Steven Connor (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
1. Veils
2. Boxes
3. Tables
4. Visit
5. Joy
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	19. Jh.
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780826459855
ISBN-10:	0826459854
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Serres, Michel
Übersetzung:	Sankey, Margaret Cowley, Peter
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Michel Serres
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.12.2008
Gewicht:	0,553 kg