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With characteristic breadth and imagination, in telling the story of humanity, Serres also tells us why Orpheus lost his friend Euridyce; why Eve was really tempted in the garden of Eden, the history of Fetishism and how human being learned to think.   The book offers a challenge to the reader: a challenge to live in the fullness of one's humanity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52656806723857,"sku":"NLS9781474284486","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781474284486.jpg?v=1762225896"},{"product_id":"five-senses-book-michel-serres-9780826459848","title":"The Five Senses","description":"Available for the first time in English! Winner of the Prix Medicis Essai! 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. 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Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil—are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus, and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53010178703633,"sku":"NIN9781503628755","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781503628755.jpg?v=1767990510"},{"product_id":"around-the-world-with-writers-scientists-and-philosophers-book-michel-serres-9780645464894","title":"Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53611524489489,"sku":"NLS9780645464894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780645464894.jpg?v=1780298653"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-michel-serres.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}