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The Troubadour of Knowledge (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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The Troubadour of Knowledge (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Series: Studies in Literature & Science
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What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a
person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel
Serres, all of these forms of pedagogy require painful yet
exhilarating departures from home and encounters with Otherness.
Like a swimmer who plunges into the river's current to reach the
opposite bank, the person who wishes to learn must risk a voyage
from the familiar to the strange. True education, Serres writes,
takes place in the fluid middle of this crossing. To be educated is
to become a harlequin, a crossbreed, a hybrid of our origins - like
a newborn child, complexly produced as a mixture of maternal and
paternal genes, yet an independent existence, separated from the
familiar and determined. In this wide-ranging meditation on
learning and difference, Serres - the scientist turned
epistemologist, philosopher turned moralist, reveler of being a
half-breed from every point of view - explores numerous pathways in
philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best
contemporary education requires knowledge of both science's general
truths and literature's singular stories. He heralds a new pedagogy
which claims that from the crossbreeding of the humanities and the
sciences a new educational ideal can be born: the troubadour of
knowledge. With his agile and poetic voice, Serres has created a
meditation of precisely this pluralistic creation, deftly
recognizing it as a third party bred not of orderly dialectics but
of the destabilizing multiplicity of the present age. Those who
know the enormous range and clarity of this thinker will welcome
this latest volume translated into English by Sheila Glaser with
the assistance of William Paulson.
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