By Professor Michel Serres
Via his explorations of the parallel advancements of medical, philosophical, and literary traits, Michel Serres has equipped a name as one in all glossy France's such a lot proficient and unique thinkers. This quantity presents English-speaking audiences with a long-overdue creation to the works of this influential scholar.
These ten essays are one of the such a lot consultant of Serres's writings, they usually replicate the complete diversity of his pursuits. Literature is the point of interest of essays on Molière, l. a. Fontaine, and Zola, while articles on Plato, Thales, and the foundation of language deal with philosophical matters. different essays are dedicated to epistemological questions and current Serres's innovations on genetics and on new ways to technology and its affinities with portray and religion.
Michel Serres is professor of the background of technological know-how on the college of Paris, Sorbonne, and the writer of greater than a dozen books, together with 'The Parasite'.
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And he cannot cheat because the feast, the festive meal, the banquet is the play itself, not only as title but as living reality. Dom Juan is a complete treatise on giving and counter-giving, but, in the collectivity as it is lived, the structures '''Without reproach, I will buy you ribbons from a l l the merchants who pass'by . . " (II, 1 ). 13 / The Apparition of Hermes: Dom Juan of exchange are only dramatized, representable and represented, in the course of a festive meal. In order that the treatise be a comedy, Dam Juan had to be a feast.
2 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. Deals with the systematicity of Leibniz's thought and situates Leibniz within the history of science. Serres maintains that Leibniz, along with Desargues and Pascal, is at the heart of a philosophical and mathematical revolution that develops the question of a multicentered, infinite, complex universe. 49Feux et signaux de brume, p. 65. Let us not miss the allusion to contemporary theories of textuality and specifically to the Derridean problematic: what appears to be a new problematic is in fact the reactivation of an already existing one going back to the beginning of the development of thermodynamics.
Yes. " "Give me your hand," and so on : this is death. The law is clear: to fulfill the word that has been spoken. " I am not bound ; no object possesses the binding quality that ties one to virtue. I do not belong to the first object I am taken with. I am breaking the circle of taking and giving, having and owing, offering and receiving. "My engagement is of no use ; the love I have for a beautiful woman does not bind my soul and prevent me from doing justice to others" (I, 2). Justice and right can change sides.