Available for the first time in English
Winner of the Prix Medicis 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 Academie Francaise and one of France's leading philosophers -- traces a topology of human perception. Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in...

Available for the first time in English
Winner of the Prix Medicis 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 Academie Francaise and one of France's leading philosophers -- traces a topology of human perception. Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in...