Variations on the Body - Couverture souple

Serres, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1937561062 ISBN 13 : 9781937561062

Editeur : Univocal Publishing LLC, 2012

Synopsis

World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. This work describes the variations, the admirable metamorphoses that the body can accomplish. While animals lack such a variety of gestures, postures, and movements, the fluidity of the human body mimics the leisure of living beings and things; what's more, it creates signs. Already here, within its movements and metamorphoses, the mind is born. The five senses are not the only source of knowledge: it emerges, in large part, from the imitations the plasticity of the body allows. In it, with it, by it knowledge begins.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science.

Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Univocal Publishing LLC
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1937561062
• ISBN 13: 9781937561062
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 152
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• Personne responsable: non disponible