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Variations on the body
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- Book Synopsis
- World-renowned philosopher, Michel Serres writes a text in praise of the body and movement, in praise of teachers of physical education, coaches, mountain guides, athletes, dancers, mimes, clowns, artisans, and artists. This work describes the variations, the admirable metamorphoses that the body can accomplish. While animals lack such a variety of gestures, postures, and movements, the fluidity of the human body mimics the leisure of living beings and things; what's more, it creates signs. Already here, within its movements and metamorphoses, the mind is born. The five senses are not the only source of knowledge: it emerges, in large part, from the imitations the plasticity of the body allows. In it, with it, by it knowledge begins.
- About The Author
- Michel Serres is one of the rare contemporary philosophers to propose an open vision of the world founded on an alliance between the humanities and science. Randolph Burks is a Michel Serres scholar and translator.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781937561062
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing, (13 June 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 151
- Weight
- 216 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 194 x 124 x 15 mm
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