The ParasiteInfluential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres'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, including Genesis.
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 include Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003). |
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... Hwang Ho , defending themselves until death against the waters of the Hwang Ho . Source of life and major peril of destruction . The Yellow River is an enormous geological transformer . It tears through its heights , rather violently ...
... Hwang Ho . Agricul- ture is born of the Alpheus that cleans and purifies all the shit of the kings . There remains then a square of denuded earth , from which all the vegetable covering has disappeared . That is rather a great distance ...
... Hwang Ho is the white domino , the virgin spot of the excluded thirds , the difference from equilibrium . This expanse , because it is empty , is homogeneous , isotropic , and measurable . It is the field of agriculture in the valley ...
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Rats Meals Cascades 35 | 3 |
Satyrs Meals HostGuest | 15 |
Decisions Indecisions The Excluded Third | 22 |
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