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The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Paperback)
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The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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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 Medicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an
introduction by Steven Connor.
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