Malfeasance - by Michel Serres (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this reflection on the relation between nature and culture, Michel Serres relates the present environmental catastrophe to pollution generated by humanity's efforts to appropriate.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In this reflection on the relation between nature and culture, Michel Serres relates the present environmental catastrophe to pollution generated by humanity's efforts to appropriate.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Malfeasance</i> is a welcome introduction to, and an elegant demonstration of, Michel Serres's recent work. In the face of pollution's calamities, Serres calls for responsible action, a new social contract, a peaceful compact with the world. Reversing Rousseau's negative command--'This is mine'--he proffers, 'This is enough for me.'--Pierre Saint-Amand "Brown University"<br><br>Michel Serres is widely considered one of the most important French thinkers of the postwar era. He believes in the age-old, overreaching ambition of philosophy: to synthesize the totality of human knowledge. <i>Malfeasance</i> reads like a manifesto of his philosophy of synthesis.--Robert Harrison "Stanford University"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michel Serres is a French philosopher, Professor of French at Stanford, and, since 1990, a member of the <i>Académie Française.</i> He is the author of more than thirty books, of which many have been translated into English. Stanford published his <i>Rome: The Book of Foundations</i> in 1991.
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