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Hermes I

Communication
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For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon. His early five-volume series Hermes, which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, was an intellectual supernova in its proposition that culture and science shared the same mythic and narrative structures. Hermes I: Communication marks the start of a major publishing endeavor to introduce this foundational series into English.  Building on the figure of the Greek god Hermes, who presides over the realms of communication and interpretation, Hermes I embarks on a reflection concerning the history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz and culminates by way of a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas, Molière, Verne, and the story of Cinderella. We observe a singular poetic philosopher seeking to bridge the gap between the liberal arts and the sciences through 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. In these pages, students and scholars of philosophy will discover an extraordinary project of thought as vital to critical reflection today as it was fifty years ago.

Author Biography:

Michel Serres (1930–2019) was author of more than sixty books, including Biogea, Variations on the Body, and The Parasite (all published in translation by Minnesota). He is widely known for his poetic prose and interdisciplinary form of thought.    Louise Burchill is translator of three books by Alain Badiou, including Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, and cotranslator of Évelyne Grossman's The Anguish of Thought (both published by Minnesota).    Paul A. Harris is professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He is coauthor of Contemporary Viewing Stone Display.
Release date NZ
December 25th, 2023
Author
Contributor
  • Translated by Louise Burchill
Pages
360
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
8 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780816678839
Product ID
36600461

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