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Posągi jako źródła nowej epistemologii (przypadek Michela Serresa)
Statues as a source of new epistemology (the case of Michel Serres)

Author(s): Katarzyna Trzeciak
Subject(s): Epistemology, French Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Michel Serres; epistemology;

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to read the metaphor of the statue in Michel Serres’ philosophical discourse. Sculpture understood in the broad sense, as Serres proposes in Statues: The Second Book of Foundations, enables him to trace a whole array of concepts in western thought, and to make the statue itself a model of new cognition, extending beyond binary oppositions and open to unpredictability and a lack of continuity. For Serres a statue also offers the possibility to cross the boundaries of science and the humanities, and consequently to become, at the same time, both a critical and utopian figure.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 245-258
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish