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. |
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Alcibiades Amphitryon animal Aristophanes banquet becomes beginning bifurcation black box Cary Wolfe chain chases comedy comes commensals complex country rat cows death Derrida difference discourse disorder door equilibrium everything exchange excluded third fable feast fire flow Fontaine function fuzzy garden gives gods goes grasshopper guest hare Hermès host hunting Hwang Ho intercepts interrupted invention irreversible joker Joseph Jupiter king language Leibniz living logic longer look Luhmann master meal meaning Michel Serres Molière move never Niklas Luhmann noise object observer Paraclete parasite pass path philosophy Plato play Poros position posthumanism produces prosopopoeia quasi-object question relation Rousseau Serres's Simonides simple slave sleep Socrates someone sometimes Sosie space of transformation speak spot stops story suddenly Tamar Tartuffe tessera theory things tongue Trans transsubstantiation twins voice wind wine word