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The Five Senses
A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Taschenbuch von Michel Serres
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
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 fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog 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?

The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
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 fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog 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?

The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
Über den Autor
Michel Serres (1930-2019) was Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA, and a member of the Académie Française. He is the author of Eyes (2015), Statues and Times of Crisis (2014) all published by Bloomsbury.
Zusammenfassung
Body theory and the cultural history of the body are growing 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: 2016
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Bloomsbury Revelations
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474299640
ISBN-10: 1474299644
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Serres, Michel
Übersetzung: Sankey, Margaret
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 216 x 139 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Michel Serres
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,478 kg
Artikel-ID: 103827250
Über den Autor
Michel Serres (1930-2019) was Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, USA, and a member of the Académie Française. He is the author of Eyes (2015), Statues and Times of Crisis (2014) all published by Bloomsbury.
Zusammenfassung
Body theory and the cultural history of the body are growing 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: 2016
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Bloomsbury Revelations
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474299640
ISBN-10: 1474299644
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Serres, Michel
Übersetzung: Sankey, Margaret
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 216 x 139 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Michel Serres
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,478 kg
Artikel-ID: 103827250
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