Reading with Michel Serres : an encounter with time / Maria L. Assad.

Author
Assad, Maria L., 1938- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
Description
viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm.

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    SUNY series, the margins of literature [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This book identities a new perspective on time and temporality in the work of the French writer Michel Serres. Time is the veiled notion that underlies Serres's many epistemological parables and fables, and is a consistent metaphor throughout his work. Assad uncovers this common thread through a sustained discussion of certain key concepts in chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics, and these concepts come into focus as she continues her detailed readings of Serres's texts, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190) and index.
    Contents
    • Time promised: reading Genʹese
    • Time Immortal: reading Détachement
    • Time Empirical: reading Statues
    • Time inventive: reading Le Tiers-Instruit
    • Time and earth: reading Le Contrat naturel.
    ISBN
    • 0791442292 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780791442296 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0791442306 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780791442302 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    98027740
    OCLC
    39800527
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