| Edition |
1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
| Series |
Posthumanities ; 1 |
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Posthumanities.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxviii). |
| Language |
Translated from French. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the new edition: Bring the noise : the parasite and the multiple genealogies of posthumanism / Cary Wolfe -- 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 -- The empty table on love -- The devil on love -- The worst definition -- Stories, animals. |
| Summary |
"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."--Book cover. |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Philosophy.
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Host-parasite relationships -- Philosophy.
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French literature.
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| Alt Author |
Schehr, Lawrence R.
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Wolfe, Cary.
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| Uniform |
Parasite. English
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| ISBN |
9780816648818 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0816648816 |
| Description |
xxviii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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