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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