Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: science, latour, studies, literature, bruno, michel, culture, time, conversations, serres
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1995-05-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0472065483
ISBN-13: 9780472065486

Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that inspire his highly original, challenging, and transdisciplinary essays.Serres begins by discussing the intellectual context and historical events-- including the impact of World War II and Hiroshima, which for him marke

Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: foundations, book, rome
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1991-07
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0804718679
ISBN-13: 9780804718677

Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: science, literature, studies, genesis
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1997-09-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0472084356
ISBN-13: 9780472084357

This English translation of Michel Serres’ 1982 book Genèse captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of scientific discourse and lyrical outburst, classical philosophical idiom and conversational intimacy, by turns angry, playful, refined or discordant, Genesis is an attempt to think outside of metaphysical categories of unity or rational order and to make us hear--through both its content and form--the "noise," the "sound and the fury," that ar

Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: science, literature, studies, contract, natural
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1995-06-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0472065491
ISBN-13: 9780472065493

Author: Niran Abbas
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: literature, science, studies, serres, michel, mapping
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-06-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0472030590
ISBN-13: 9780472030590

"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]The work of Michel Serres---including the books Hermes, The Parasite, The Natural Contract, Genesis, The Troubadour of Knowledge, and Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time---has stimulated readers for years, as it challenges the boundaries of science, literature, culture, language, and epistemology. The essays in

Authors:Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzis, Eunice Maguire, Henry
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: byzantine, studies, illinois, serres, ceramic, art
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0252063031
ISBN-13: 9780252063039