Michel Serres Av Christopher Watkin

<strong>Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences</strong><br><br>Author of some 70 books and an ''immortal'' member of the <em>Académie française</em>, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental humanities. <br><br>Chris Watkin provides the first introduction to the full breadth of Serres'' work. Each chapter considers Serres'' importance for one key contemporary debate, critically situating his well-known passages and books in their broader conceptual and intellectual context. You will discover that Serres'' famous account of the quasi-object and his ''natural contract'' are just the beginning of a sustained series of explorations encompassing philosophy, literary criticism, the sciences, technology, religion, and art -- all as participants in the same fundamental structures of communication.