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Mapping Michel Serres

Niran Abbas, Editor
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"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."

---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]

The work of Michel Serres---including the books Hermes, The Parasite, The Natural Contract, Genesis, The Troubadour of Knowledge, and Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time---has stimulated readers for years, as it challenges the boundaries of science, literature, culture, language, and epistemology. The essays in Mapping Michel Serres, written by the leading interpreters of his work, offer perspectives from a range of disciplinary positions, including literature, language studies, and cultural theory. Contributors include Maria Assad, Hanjo Berressem, Stephen Clucas, Steven Connor, Andrew Gibson, René Girard, Paul Harris, Marcel Hénaff, William Johnsen, William Paulson, Marjorie Perloff, Philipp Schweighauser, Isabella Winkler, and Julian Yates.

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • From Ritual to Science
  • Swimming the Channel
  • Frères Amis, Not Enemies: Serres between Prigogine and Girard
  • “Incerto Tempore Incertisque Locis”: The Logic of the Clinamen and the Birth of Physics
  • Liquid History: Serres and Lucretius
  • Serres at the Crossroads
  • “Multiple Pleats”: Some Applications of Michel Serres's Poetics
  • The Smooth Operator: Serres Prolongs Poe
  • The Desire for Unity and its Failure: Reading Henry Adams through Michel Serres
  • Michel Serres's Les Cinq Sens
  • Of Stones, Angels, and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City
  • “The Gift is a Given”: On the Errant Ethic of Michel Serres
  • “Being Free to Write for a Woman”: The Question of Gender in the Work of Michel Serres
  • Love, Death, and Parasites
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-03059-0 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-02496-4 (ebook)
Series
  • Studies in Literature and Science
Subject
  • Literary Studies:Literature and Science
  • Philosophy
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literary Studies:European Literature
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