The parasite / Michel Serres ; translated by Lawrence R. Schehr ; with a new introduction by Cary Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serres, Michel.

Contributor:

Schehr, Lawrence R.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 1.

Posthumanities ; 1

Standardized Title:

Parasite. English

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

xxviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Summary:

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. Michel Serres is professor in history of science at the Sorbonne, professor of Romance languages at Stanford University, and author of several books, including "Genesis." Lawrence R. Schehr is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. His books include "Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal "(Minnesota, 2003).

Contents:

Introduction to the new edition: Bring the noise : the parasite and the multiple genealogies of posthumanism / Cary Wolfe

Interrupted meals logics

Rats' meals cascades

Satyrs' meals host/guest

Diminishing returns the obscure and the confused

Decisions, indecisions, the excluded third, included

The lion's share the simple arrow

Athlete's meals difference and the construction of the real

Picaresques and cybernetics the new balance

Pentecost

More interrupted meals technique, work

Rats' dinner diode, triode

Logic of the fuzzy

The master and the counter-master

More rats' meals machines and engines

The means, the milieu

Spaces of transformation

Lunar meals

Meals of the Lord in Paradise

Work

Insects' meals

Energy, information

The gods, the perpetual host

Interlude : full-length portrait of the parasite

Confessed meals

Jean-Jacques, lawmaker's judge

Noises

Music

Fat cows and lean cows economy

Salad meals stercoral origin of property rights

Meals of satire exchange of money, the exact and the fuzzy

Meals among brothers theory of the joker

Meals of chestnuts the sun and the sign

The cows come out of the river stocks

Cows eat cows theory of the line

The best definition

Of sickness in general

Midnight suppers society

Impostors' meals analyze, paralyze, catalyze

The proper name of the host masters and slaves

Theory of the quasi-object

The empty table on love

The devil on love

The worst definition

Stories, animals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxviii).

ISBN:

9780816648818

0816648816

OCLC:

78993943