Birth of Physics

Michel Serres

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Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres' distinctive philosophy of science.

Book Details

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publish Date: Jan 10th, 2018
Pages: 242
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9781786606259
Categories: • Philosophy & Social Aspects• Movements - Critical Theory

About the Author

Webb, David: -

David Webb is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Staffordshire University, UK.

Serres, Michel: - Michel Serres was Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française, France. A renowned and popular philosopher, he was a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses (2008), Genesis (1995), and Biogée (2013).

Praise for this book

Webb and Ross have provided us with an elegant and idiomatic new translation of one of Michel Serres's most timely and revolutionary books, allowing English readers to experience the extraordinary power and seductive quality of the Serresian idiom. It is my expectation and hope that their excellent work will open the riches of this important text to a new generation of Anglophone scholars.

This long-awaited translation will change the way we think about materialism, and about the relationship between thought and life. Vortices, declinations, flows: the atoms of ancient physics have all the life and vibrancy that the twenty-first century often thought it was discovering in its new materialism. The history of ideas and life alters dramatically - and for the better - if we take Serres's thought seriously. Atoms are not static building blocks but deviating forces, and the birth of physics was a moment of wild difference if only we read Lucretius with the keen eye that Serres offers.