Hermes I av Michel Serres

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<P><B>For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works</B></P> <P> Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon. His early five-volume series <I>Hermes</I>, which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, was an intellectual supernova in its proposition that culture and science shared the same mythic and narrative structures. <I>Hermes I: Communication</I> marks the start of a major publishing endeavor to introduce this foundational series into English. </P><P> </P><P> Building on the figure of the Greek god Hermes, who presides over the realms of communication and interpretation, <I>Hermes I </I>embarks on a reflection concerning the history of mathematics via Descartes and Leibniz and culminates by way of a Bachelardian logoanalytic reading of Homer, Dumas, Moli&egrav