Geometry

The Third Book of Foundations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics. Even more broadly, Geometry is the beginnings of things and also how these beginnings have shaped how we continue to think philosophically and critically. Serres rejects a traditional history of mathematics which unfolds in a linear manner, and argues for the need to delve into the past of maths and identify a series of ruptures which can help shed light on how this discipline has developed and how, in turn, the way we think has been shaped and formed.This meticulous and lyrical translation marks the first ever English translation of this key text in the history of ideas.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-02-23
Mått135 x 201 x 25 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474281409
ÖversättareRandolph Burks

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Michel Serres is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University and a member of the Académie Française. A renowned and popular philosopher, he is a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses, Rome and Statues.Randolph Burks is a philosopher specializing in phenomenology and philosophies of the body and nature. He has translated several works by Michel Serres, including Biogea, Variations on the Body and The Hermaphrodite (forthcoming) and the other two titles in the 'Foundations' series.

The origins of geometryThe Universal: One of its First ConstructionsThe Differences: Chaos in the History of ScienceSynthesis: The Science of HistoryPart One: Customs and Laws1. First in History: AnaximanderSpaces without Exclusion: Juridical Origins2. First in the rite: The royal victimSpaces of Exclusion: Political Origins3. First in dialectic: The interlocutorSpaces of Exclusion: Discursive Origins4.The Point at NoonPart Two: Nature5.First in History: ThalesFrom the pyramid to the tetrahedron: The optical originFrom Diogenes to Thales: The ethical originFrom the sun to the earth: The astronomical origin6. First in philosophy: The ignorant slave boyFrom Pythagoras to Zeno: The algorithmic origin7. First in logic: The elementThe automatic origin and Return to sociopolitical originsPart three: Conclusion8. The Measurement of the Earth: HerodotusNotes

Michel Serres is one of the most original philosophers on our planet. Trained in mathematics and the philosophy of science, he straddles the divide between the “two cultures” of science and the humanities, and has developed a style of writing that eschews the usual trappings of academic prose. Geometry is ostensibly an analysis of the origins of geometry in ancient Greece, but in the process, it presents an entire philosophy of space and time, of the nature of science and knowledge, and even of their relations to politics and religion. This is Serres at his best: inventive, provocative, and profound.