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Hermes I - Communication
Michel Serres; Translated by Louise Burchill
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R756
Discovery Miles 7 560
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For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major
French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic
transdisciplinary works  Michel Serres is recognized as one
of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with
Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert
Simondon. His early five-volume series Hermes, which appeared in
the 1960s and 1970s, was an intellectual supernova in its
proposition that culture and science shared the same mythic and
narrative structures. Hermes I: Communication marks the start of a
major publishing endeavor to introduce this foundational series
into English.  Building on the figure of the Greek
god Hermes, who presides over the realms of communication and
interpretation, Hermes I embarks on a reflection concerning the
history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz and culminates by
way of a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas,
Molière, Verne, and the story of Cinderella. We observe a singular
poetic philosopher seeking to bridge the gap between the liberal
arts and the sciences through a profound mathematical and poetic
fable regarding information theory, history, and art, establishing
a new way to think about the production of knowledge during the
late twentieth century. In these pages, students and scholars of
philosophy will discover an extraordinary project of thought as
vital to critical reflection today as it was fifty years ago.
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Hermes I - Communication
Michel Serres; Translated by Louise Burchill
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R2,832
Discovery Miles 28 320
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major
French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic
transdisciplinary works  Michel Serres is recognized as one
of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with
Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert
Simondon. His early five-volume series Hermes, which appeared in
the 1960s and 1970s, was an intellectual supernova in its
proposition that culture and science shared the same mythic and
narrative structures. Hermes I: Communication marks the start of a
major publishing endeavor to introduce this foundational series
into English.  Building on the figure of the Greek
god Hermes, who presides over the realms of communication and
interpretation, Hermes I embarks on a reflection concerning the
history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz and culminates by
way of a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas,
Molière, Verne, and the story of Cinderella. We observe a singular
poetic philosopher seeking to bridge the gap between the liberal
arts and the sciences through a profound mathematical and poetic
fable regarding information theory, history, and art, establishing
a new way to think about the production of knowledge during the
late twentieth century. In these pages, students and scholars of
philosophy will discover an extraordinary project of thought as
vital to critical reflection today as it was fifty years ago.
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of
scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a
comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research
called "intermedialities." The concept of intermedialities stresses
the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on
social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories,
avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism,
and political theory. The "intermedial" approach to social
relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the
epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter
(being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new
modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the
critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and
the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new
approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not
only engagements between already constituted positions but even
more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and
decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the
resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the
leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and
ethical analysis of the "in-between" enables a conception of
community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with
others rather than on an identification with a shared identity.
Investigations of "in-betweenness," both as medium specific and
between heterogeneous "sites" of inquiry, range here from
philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the
political circulation of money and power to the operation of new
technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment
in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance
between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and
culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval
forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these com
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of
scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a
comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research
called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses
the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on
social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories,
avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism,
and political theory. The 'intermedial' approach to social
relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the
epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter
(being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new
modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the
critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and
the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new
approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not
only engagements between already constituted positions but even
more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and
decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the
resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the
leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and
ethical analysis of the 'in-between' enables a conception of
community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with
others rather than on an identification with a shared identity.
Investigations of 'in-betweenness,' both as medium specific and
between heterogeneous 'sites' of inquiry, range here from
philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the
political circulation of money and power to the operation of new
technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment
in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance
between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and
culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval
forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these
complex intersections between media, materiality, art, and the
philosophy and politics of the in-between suggest, the project of
intermedialities provides new ways of rethinking relations among
arts, politics, and science.
InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors
present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of
embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and
postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing
non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through
the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an
ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly
specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies
(monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).
InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors
present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of
embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and
postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing
non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through
the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an
ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly
specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies
(monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).
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