The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
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Available for the first time in English
Winner of the Prix M dicis Essai
Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres - a member of the Acad mie Fran aise and one of France's leading philosophers - 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 attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826459854
ISBN13:9780826459855
Release Date:February 2009
Publisher:Continuum
Length:364 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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