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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... difference between meaning and world is formed for this process of the con- tinual self - determination of meaning as the difference between order and per- turbation , between information and noise . Both are , and both remain ...
... difference . " 9 In Derrida's formulation , there is " difference at the origin . " And it is noise , of course , that interrupts the already parasitic exchange between the country rat and the city rat in La Fontaine's fable that ...
... difference , and the hand ( to stay with Heidegger's rendering of it ) is already nonidentical with itself because the difference between opening and closing , grasping and receiving ( a difference that makes the hand what it is , from ...
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Rats Meals Cascades 35 | 3 |
Satyrs Meals HostGuest | 15 |
Decisions Indecisions The Excluded Third | 22 |
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