The Parasite

by Serres, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780816648818
• ISBN10: 0816648816
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-25
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Influential philosopher Michel Serresrs"s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serresrs"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. Michel Serres is professor in history of science at the Sorbonne, professor of Romance languages at Stanford University, and author of several books, includingGenesis. Lawrence R. Schehr is professor of French at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. His books includeZoontologies: The Question of the Animal(Minnesota, 2003).

Author Biography

Michel Serres is professor in history of science at the Sorbonne, professor of Romance languages at Stanford University

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface	p. vii
Translator's Introduction	p. ix
Introduction to the New Edition Bring the Noise: The Parasite and the Multiple Genealogies of Posthumanism	p. xi
Interrupted Meals
Logics
Rats' Meals
Cascades	p. 3
Satyrs' Meals
Host/Guest	p. 15
Diminishing Returns
The Obscure and the Confused	p. 17
Decisions, Indecisions
The Excluded Third, Included	p. 22
The Lion's Share
The Simple Arrow	p. 26
Athlete's Meals
Difference and the Construction of the Real	p. 28
Picaresques and Cybernetics
The New Balance	p. 34
Pentecost	p. 40
More Interrupted Meals
Technique, Work
Rats' Dinner
Diode, Triode	p. 51
Logic of the Fuzzy	p. 56
The Master and the Counter-Master	p. 58
More Rats' Meals
Machines and Engines	p. 61
The Means, the Milieu	p. 66
Spaces of Transformation	p. 71
Lunar Meals	p. 74
Meals of the Lord in Paradise	p. 77
Work	p. 86
Insects' Meals	p. 91
Energy, Information	p. 94
The Gods, the Perpetual Host	p. 98
Interlude Full-Length Portrait of the Parasite
Confessed Meals	p. 103
Jean-Jacques, Lawmaker's Judge	p. 116
Noises	p. 121
Music	p. 129
Fat Cows and Lean Cows
Economy
Salad Meals
Stercoral Origin of Property Rights	p. 139
Meals of Satire
Exchange of Money, the Exact and the Fuzzy	p. 147
Meals among Brothers
Theory of the Joker	p. 155
Meals of Chestnuts
The Sun and the Sign	p. 165
The Cows Come out of the River
Stocks	p. 175
Cows Eat Cows
Theory of the Line	p. 182
The Best Definition	p. 190
Of Sickness in General	p. 197
Midnight Suppers
Society
Impostors' Meals
Analyze, Paralyze, Catalyze	p. 201
The Proper Name of the Host
Masters and Slaves	p. 209
Theory of the Quasi-Object 224
The Empty Table
On Love	p. 235
The Devil
On Love	p. 246
The Worst Definition	p. 252
Stories, Animals	p. 255
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