Five Senses

Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading of the senses in Western philosophy, Michel Serres GCo member of the Acadmie franaise and one of France's leading philosophers GCo traces a topology of human perception. Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he de ...