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Mapping Michel Serres.

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 Ser...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.