Books by Michel Serres

“Smeltende is, stigende vandstande, orkaner, smittefarlige pandemier.” Det er lyden af det 21. århundredes krisetider, som ringer ind, ifølge den franske filosof Michel Serres (1930-2019). Han har brugt det meste af sit intellektuelle liv på at sammentænke verden og videnskab, økologi og filosofi, blandt andet i den indflydelsesrige "Naturpagten" fra 1990. I sit kritiske manifest "Krisetider" viser Serres, at økokriserne skyldes, at vores kultur har gjort Jorden til et umælende objekt – nu råber den tilbage! Vi er nået frem til en skillevej: enten døden eller symbiosen. Symbiosen starter med lanceringen af en række nye institutioner. Demokratiet er færdigt, kosmokratiet må lanceres. FN er forældet, vi må etablere naturunionen WAFEL (Water, Air, Fire, Earth, Life).Krisetider er en del af bogserien AFTRYK, der samler korte og vedkommende filosofiske tekster med væsentlig virkningshistorie.Teksten er oversat af Sebastian Egholm Lund, der ligeledes har skrevet en fyldig introduktion, som optegner Serres’ filosofiske forfatterskab, hans liv og intellektuelle aftryk: Som mangeårig mentor for Bruno Latour og inspiration for økokritikeren Timothy Morton kan Serres’ tænkning ses som kimen til den moderne økofilosofi.

Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres' distinctive philosophy of science.

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of Frances most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born.These new humans beings are our childrenthumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)but technologies have been changing so fast that parents scarcely know their children. Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologieschanges that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all.

In this reflection on the relation between nature and culture, Michel Serres relates the present environmental catastrophe to pollution generated by humanity's efforts to appropriate.

Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres'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.