Serres, Michel
Hermes I: Communication
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816678839
- author:
- Serres, Michel
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 360
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Michel Serres' groundbreaking series Hermes is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge. This introductory volume, now available in English for the first time, marks the start of a major publishing endeavor to introduce this foundational series into the language.
Built on the figure of the Greek god Hermes, who presides over communication and interpretation, this work embarks on a reflection concerning the history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz, before culminating in a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas, Molière, Verne, and the story of Cinderella.
Students and scholars of philosophy will discover an extraordinary project of thought as vital to critical reflection today as it was fifty years ago. This book offers 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.
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