In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics. Even more broadly, Geometry is the beginnings of things and also how ...these beginnings have shaped how we continue to think philosophically and critically. Serres rejects a traditional history of mathematics which unfolds in a linear manner, and argues for the need to delve into the past of maths and identify a series of ruptures which can help shed light on how this discipline has developed and how, in turn, the way we think has been shaped and formed. This meticulous and lyrical translation marks the first ever English translation of this key text in the history of ideas.
En 1990, paraissait chez François Bourin Le Contrat naturel (réédité en 1992 dans la collection Champs/Flammarion). Michel Serres s’y livrait à une méditation sur les nouveaux devoirs que nous avons ...envers le monde que nous habitons. Dans le présent texte, Retour au Contrat naturel, le philosophe revient sur la problématique de son livre et sur le débat, actualisé en 1992 à l’occasion de la conférence de Rio et de l’appel de Heidelberg qui contribuèrent, chacun à leur manière, à donner une dimension planétaire au souci écologique. À travers le litige qui opposa alors partisans d’un progrès conditionné par le respect de la nature et les tenants d’un progrès conçu comme la poursuite de la maîtrise technique, la pensée de la nature s’est considérablement « dramatisée ». Pourquoi ? Quelle « fin de la nature » est-on en train de vivre ? Faut-il en appeler à une nouvelle philosophie de notre inscription dans le monde ?
A theory is primarily a spectacle, and looking at a theatre presupposes standing in a site exterior to the stage. Leibniz often uses the word theatre, but never for science. In its relation to ...scientific knowledge, philosophy seeks a site from whence to speak about the encyclopaedia. But the latter, well constructed, speaks a language closed upon itself. Yet there are four and only four possible sites that philosophers have discovered, defined and practised. These four sites define four types or modes of appropriation of science, four ingenious ways to acquire a property by illicit means -- in other words, to gain a sovereign science without going through science as such. These four points of views are: Greek site, Kantian site, enlightenment site and modernity site. This law of the four cardinal sites brings people to the end of an adventure, that of the impregnable texts kept external to knowledge, the four pathways of domination.
Teoria quasi-obiektu Serres, Michel
Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej,
2020
26
Journal Article
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Tekst jest fragmentem książki Michela Serresa La parasite Pasożyt wydanej w 1980 roku. Kluczowe pytanie, jakie stawia autor tekstu, dotyczy zbiorowości, której funkcjonowanie zasadza się na ...pasożytowaniu, życiu kosztem innych organizmów, zarówno ludzkich, jak i nieludzkich. Wspólnota tworzy się w ruchu podmiany (wikariancji), odstępowania siebie na rzecz innych, w łańcuchu przekazywania „ja”. Podobnie rozumiana jest przez autora podmiotowość – jako nigdy niezakończony proces wyzbywania się siebie, wymagający porzucenia koncepcji bytu na rzecz relacji.
The notion of structure, recently discovered in the realm of methodology, has an algebraic origin. It designates a set of ele ments whose number and nature are not specified, a set pro vided with one ...or more operations, one or more relations which possess well-defined characteristics. If one specifies the number and nature of the elements of the structure and the nature of the operations, then its model becomes evident. Perhaps the simplest example is that of an ordered structure. It designates a set of elements provided with an ordering relation. Let there be for example three points A, B,
Light Serres, Michel
Yale French studies,
01/2017
131/132
Journal Article
Serres talks about the use of clear lines in comics. According to Chinese wisdom, thirty spokes converge on the hub of a wheel, but the small empty space at the center gives it its force, coherence, ...and function. Like a dawn light, more than twenty albums radiate out from Herge's life. Certainly, of all of the worthies and venerable personages that he has met in his life, he thinks he can say that Georges stands out as the only true genius. Genius is defined not only in terms of its ever-growing reputation, but above all by its secret relationship with the two most positive manifestations of life: the comic and childhood. Young nieces and white-haired uncles alike laugh together at Moliere and Aristophanes, whose force and vigor have never been surpassed.
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