Michel Serres

Hominescence (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Burks, Randolph

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

According to Michel Serres, a process of 'hominescence' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again but what does the future hold?

In this innovative and passionately original work of philosophy, Serres describes the future of man as an adolescence, transitioning from childhood to adulthood, or luminescence, when a dark body becomes light. After considering the radical changes that humanity has experienced over the last fifty years, Serres analyzes the new relationship that man has with diverse concepts, like the dead, his own body, agriculture, and new communication networks. He alerts us to the consequences of these changes, particularly on the danger of growing inequalities between rich and poor countries.

Should we rejoice in the future, ignore it, or even dread it? Unlike other philosophies that preach doom and gloom, Hominescence calls for us to anticipate the uncertain light of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474247054
• Artikelnr.: 56942454

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Deaths The Body How Our Body Changed The First Loop of Hominescence Three
Global Houses The Greatest Contemporary Discovery Ego: Who Signs These
Pages? The World The Greatest Contemporary Event Ancient and New Common
Houses The Evolutionary House The Second Loop of Hominescence Who, ego? The
Others The Event of Communication Contemporary Humanity The End of
Networks: the Universal House The Third Loop of Hominescence The Others and
the Death of the Ego Peace