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Author: Christopher Watkin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474405744
ISBN 10: 1474405746
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 31 March 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Chris Watkin has written a marvellously lucid and accessible guide to the prodigious work of Michel Serres. Watkin takes account expertly of the whole spread of Serres's long career and breathtakingly various oeuvre, navigating through it not by text or theme, but by 'figures of thought'. This is a brilliant device that allows him to pay attention not just to the matter of Serres's thought but also to its particoloured styles and textures.-- ""Steven Connor, University of Cambridge"" This is an exceptionally lucid, detailed introduction to the disruptive thought of Michel Serres. Gone are the classic themes of subjects and objects, agency and responsibility, and in their place Serres charts the arrival of information technologies, climate catastrophe and the morphing of the human, as radically shifting structures of what Serres calls 'hominescence'. Christopher Watkin opens his admirable account by outlining Serres' disagreements with Descartes and Plato, and with Serres' adaptation of Leibnizian monadology. Rethinking space and time, language, quasi-objects and a new broad scope notion of ecology fill out an intense engagement with Serres' powerfully enabling legacy. Both general readers and specialists are in Watkin's debt for thus providing access to the strange new world of Serresian philosophy.--Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University
"Chris Watkin has written a marvellously lucid and accessible guide to the prodigious work of Michel Serres. Watkin takes account expertly of the whole spread of Serres's long career and breathtakingly various oeuvre, navigating through it not by text or theme, but by 'figures of thought'. This is a brilliant device that allows him to pay attention not just to the matter of Serres's thought but also to its particoloured styles and textures.-- ""Steven Connor, University of Cambridge"" This is an exceptionally lucid, detailed introduction to the disruptive thought of Michel Serres. Gone are the classic themes of subjects and objects, agency and responsibility, and in their place Serres charts the arrival of information technologies, climate catastrophe and the morphing of the human, as radically shifting structures of what Serres calls 'hominescence'. Christopher Watkin opens his admirable account by outlining Serres' disagreements with Descartes and Plato, and with Serres' adaptation of Leibnizian monadology. Rethinking space and time, language, quasi-objects and a new broad scope notion of ecology fill out an intense engagement with Serres' powerfully enabling legacy. Both general readers and specialists are in Watkin's debt for thus providing access to the strange new world of Serresian philosophy.--Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University"
Author Information
Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University. His previous publications include Phenomenology or Deconstruction?, Difficult Atheism, and French Philosophy Today.
