Output details
36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
Staffordshire University
Chapter title
Penser le multiple sans le concept: vers un intellect démocratique
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Herne
Book title
Michel Serres
ISBN of book
9782851971555
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Michel Serres' apparently paradoxical proposal “to think multiplicity without the concept” reflects the project of a resistance to the temptations of reason, which always seem to fall back on some form of unity. The paper returns to Serres’ work on atomism in Lucretius, and on mathematical models in Leibniz. It then demonstrates that Serres advances an idea of thinking that involves exploring variations without assuming the priority of any one form or model. Such thinking requires great attentiveness to things and interdisciplinary learning, but also a certain naivety. These are the elements that Serres identifies as necessary for what he calls a ‘democratic intellect.’
