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The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,849
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The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Hardcover): Michel Serres

The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Hardcover)

Michel Serres; Translated by Margaret Sankey, Peter Cowley

Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers

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Available for the first time in English! Winner of the Prix Medicis Essai! Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres - a member of the Academie Francaise and one of France's leading philosophers - 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?

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Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Release date: December 2008
First published: February 2009
Authors: Michel Serres
Translators: Margaret Sankey • Peter Cowley
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-5984-8
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology
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LSN: 0-8264-5984-6
Barcode: 9780826459848

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