Natural Contract

Name: Natural Contract
Price: 28.0 USD
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ISBN: 9780472065493

ISBN-10: 0472065491

ISBN-13: 9780472065493

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michel Serres, Elizabeth MacArthur, William Paulson

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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants. World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history must now include the uncontrolled violence that humanity perpetrates upon the earth, and the uncontrollable menace to human life posed by the earth in reaction to this violence. Just as a social contract once brought order to human relations, Serres believes that we must now sign a "natural contract" with the earth to…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 4/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Michel Serres is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University and a member of the Acadï¿½mie Franï¿½aise. A renowned and popular philosopher, he is a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses (Grasset/Continuum), Genesis (Grasset/U. of Michigan Press), and Biogï¿½e (Le Pommier/Univocal Press).