The Five Senses : A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
ISBN-10
0826459846
ISBN-13
9780826459848
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2008
Print length
364 Pages
Weight
680 grams
Dimensions
16.90 x 24.00 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
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Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, this book demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience.
Available for the first time in English!
Winner of the Prix Médicis Essai!
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 - a member of the Académie Française 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?
Winner of the Prix Médicis Essai!
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 - a member of the Académie Française 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?
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