Humanistic Narratives
Professor Michel Serres author Randolph Burks translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:20th Feb '25
£21.99
This title is due to be published on 20th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The final installement in the lively and poetic 'Humanism' series from one of the world's foremost philosophers of life, Michel Serres.
The final instalment in the lively and poetic 'Humanism' series from one of the world's foremost philosophers of life, Michel Serres.
Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity and humanism. This book weaves together and condenses the overriding philosophical narratives of the previous books and reflects upon Serres' own humanist theoretical system. With characteristic breadth and imagination, in telling the story of humanity, Serres also tells us why Orpheus lost his friend Euridyce; why Eve was really tempted in the garden of Eden, the history of Fetishism and how human being learned to think.
The book offers a challenge to the reader: a challenge to live in the fullness of one's humanity.
In his final recount of humanism, humanity and the Humanities, as only Michel Serres could achieve, we learn how ongoing processes of abandonment, forgetting, harmony and return, shape both the state of the Earth and our estrangement from it today. A superb analysis and an essential read for anyone who inhabits this planet and cares about its future. * Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *
ISBN: 9781474284493
Dimensions: unknown
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208 pages