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  • Times of Crisis

    What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent our Lives and Future

    For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • The Parasite

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr ...
    Series Book 1 - Posthumanities
    Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Hermes I

    Communication

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Louise Burchill ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary worksMichel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon. His early five-volume series Hermes, which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, was an ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Biogea

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Univocal
    Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he names singularly as Biogea. In these times when species are disappearing, when catastrophic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis impale the earth, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Religion

    Rereading What Is Bound Together

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life.Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Branches

    A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent

    Despite being one of France's most enduring and popular philosophers, Branches is the first English translation of what has been identified as Michel Serres' key text on humanism.In attempting to reconcile humanity and nature, Serres examines how human history 'branches' off from its origin story. Using the metaphor of a branch springing from the stem and arguing that the branch's originality ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Incandescent

    The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. With his characteristic breadth of references including art, poetry, science, philosophy and literature, Serres paints a new picture of what it might mean to live meaningfully in contemporary society. He tells the story of humankind (from ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Thumbelina

    The Culture and Technology of Millennials

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Daniel W. Smith ...
    The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Statues

    The Second Book of Foundations

    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Hermes III

    Translation

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious exploration of the deep interconnections among disparate fields of knowledge. While Hermes II: Interference traced the overlapping echoes of ideas across realms, Hermes III moves to translate the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Geometry

    The Third Book of Foundations

    Translated by Randolph Burks ...
    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 ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD