Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science
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Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects

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eBook - PDF

Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects

About this book

Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781350247901
eBook ISBN
9781350247871
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Surrationalism after Bachelard: Michel Serres and le nouveau nouvel esprit scientifique
  9. Chapter 2: Michel Serres and the epistemological break
  10. Chapter 3: Purification as a practice of the self
  11. Chapter 4: French object-oriented philosophy in the 1970s: Serres, Dagognet and Latour
  12. Chapter 5: Brewers of time: Michel Serres and modernity
  13. Chapter 6: Thanatocracy and the anthropology of science
  14. Chapter 7: The secularization of science
  15. Chapter 8: The parliament of things and the Anthropocene: How to listen to quasi-objects
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index