The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

by Michel Serres

Book Overview

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474299644
• ISBN13: 9781474299640
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"