Mapping Michel Serres / edited by Niran Abbas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abbas, Niran B. (Niran Bahjat), 1969-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serres, Michel.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 Mapping Michel Serres , written by the leading interpreters of his work, offer perspectives from a range of disciplinary positions, including literature, language studies, and cultural theory. Contributors include Maria Assad, Hanjo Berressem, Stephen Clucas, Steven Connor, Andrew Gibson, Rene Girard, Paul Harris, Marcel Henaff, William Johnsen, William Paulson, Marjorie Perloff, Philipp Schweighauser, Isabella Winkler, and Julian Yates. "

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Introduction

From Ritual to Science

Swimming the Channel

Frères amis, Not Enemies: Serres between Prigogine and Girard

"Incerto Tempore Incertisque Locis": The Logic of the Clinamen and the Birth of Physics

Liquid History: Serres and Lucretius Lucretius

Serres at the Crossroads

"Multiple Pleats": Some Applications of Michel Serres's Poetics

The Smooth Operator: Serres Prolongs Poe Prolongs Poe

The Desire for Unity and Its Failure: Reading Henry Adams through Michel Serres through Michel Serres

Michel Serres's Les Cinq Sens

Of Stones, Angels, and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City

"The Gift Is a Given": On the Errant Ethic of Michel Serres

"Being Free to Write for a Woman": The Question of Gender in the Work of Michel Serres

Love, Death, and Parasites

Works Cited

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612445415

9781282445413

1282445413

9780472024964

0472024965

OCLC:

587654105