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The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Professor Michel Serres

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Description: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 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?The book won the inaugural "Prix Medicis Essai" in 1985. The "Revelations" edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Bloomsbury Revelations). To get started finding The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Bloomsbury Revelations), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: 2016

ISBN: 1474299962

Description: 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 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?The book won the inaugural "Prix Medicis Essai" in 1985. The "Revelations" edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Bloomsbury Revelations). To get started finding The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies (Bloomsbury Revelations), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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