The five senses : a philosophy of mingled bodies (I)

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Serres, Michel, author

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Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. . Expl...

Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. . Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres GÇö member of the Académie française and one of France's leading philosophers GÇö 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

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