The Troubadour of Knowledge

by Michel Serres

Book Overview

What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel Serres, all of these forms of pedagogy require painful yet exhilarating departures from home and encounters with Otherness. Like a swimmer who plunges into the river's current to reach the opposite bank, the person who wishes to learn must risk a voyage from the familiar to the strange. True education, Serres writes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472065513
• ISBN13: 9780472065516
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"