Parasite

Name: Parasite
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ISBN: 9780816648818

ISBN-10: 0816648816

ISBN-13: 9780816648818

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michel Serres, Lawrence R. Schehr, Cary Wolfe

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Influential philosopher Michel Serresrsquo;s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serresrsquo;s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue-creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. nbsp; Michel Serres is professor in history of science at the Sorbonne, professor of Romance languages at Stanford University, and author of several books, includingGenesis. nbsp; Lawrence R. Schehr is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. nbsp; Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University.…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
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).



Translator's Preface


Translator's Introduction


Introduction to the New Edition Bring the Noise: The Parasite and the Multiple Genealogies of Posthumanism




Interrupted Meals


Logics


Rats' Meals


Cascades


Satyrs' Meals


Host/Guest


Diminishing Returns


The Obscure and the Confused


Decisions, Indecisions


The Excluded Third, Included


The Lion's Share


The Simple Arrow


Athlete's Meals


Difference and the Construction of the Real


Picaresques and Cybernetics


The New Balance


Pentecost



More Interrupted Meals


Technique, Work


Rats' Dinner


Diode, Triode


Logic of the Fuzzy


The Master and the Counter-Master


More Rats' Meals


Machines and Engines


The Means, the Milieu


Spaces of Transformation


Lunar Meals


Meals of the Lord in Paradise


Work


Insects' Meals


Energy, Information


The Gods, the Perpetual Host


Interlude Full-Length Portrait of the Parasite


Confessed Meals


Jean-Jacques, Lawmaker's Judge


Noises


Music



Fat Cows and Lean Cows


Economy


Salad Meals


Stercoral Origin of Property Rights


Meals of Satire


Exchange of Money, the Exact and the Fuzzy


Meals among Brothers


Theory of the Joker


Meals of Chestnuts


The Sun and the Sign


The Cows Come out of the River


Stocks


Cows Eat Cows


Theory of the Line


The Best Definition


Of Sickness in General



Midnight Suppers


Society


Impostors' Meals


Analyze, Paralyze, Catalyze


The Proper Name of the Host


Masters and Slaves


Theory of the Quasi-Object 224


The Empty Table


On Love


The Devil


On Love


The Worst Definition


Stories, Animals