Michel Serres

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Michel Serres (born September 1, 1930 in Agen , † June 1, 2019 in Vincennes ) was a French philosopher . Serres was a philosophy professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Stanford University in California . In 1990 he was accepted into the Académie française . He wrote more than 50 books.

Career

In 1949 Serres entered the French Naval School in Brest , then in 1952 in the École normal supérieure (Paris) , where he received the Agrégation for Philosophy in 1955 . From 1956 to 1958 he did his military service in the French Navy , with which he also took part in the Sinai War . In the following years he accepted a teaching position at the University of Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II , where he met Michel Foucault and his teacher Jules Vuillemin . In 1968 he obtained his Doctorat d'État en Lettres. After a short stay at Johns Hopkins University with the support of René Girard , who taught there , in 1969 he was appointed professor for the history of science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . 1984 followed a parallel appointment as professor at Stanford University . On March 29, 1990, he was elected to Fauteuil 18 of the Académie française , which was held before Philippe Pétain , André François-Poncet and Edgar Faure .

In 1994 Serres was named President of the Scientific Advisory Board for the France 5 educational channel.

Serres died on June 1, 2019 at the age of 88.

theory

Michel Serres developed a communication theory based on Claude E. Shannon's information model and influenced by cybernetic approaches : In his theory, Serres placed the messenger at the center. This messenger is described in his work Der Parasit partly as a parasite and partly as a joker for the act of communication . Have taken up this approach z. B. in sociological systems theory u. a. the authors Niklas Luhmann , Maren Lehmann , Dirk Baecker , but also Bruno Latour .

Appreciations

Works (selection)

  • 1968: Hermès I - La communication. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris.
    • German: Hermes I. Communication. Translated by Michael Bischoff . Merve, Berlin 1991.
  • 1972: Hermès II - L'interférence. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris.
    • German: Hermes II. interference. Translated by Michael Bischoff. Merve, Berlin 1992.
  • 1974: Hermès III - La traduction. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris.
    • German: Hermes III. Translation. Translated by Michael Bischoff. Merve, Berlin 1992.
  • 1977: Hermès IV - La distribution. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris.
    • German: Hermes IV. Distribution. Translated by Michael Bischoff. Merve, Berlin 1993.
  • 1980: Hermès V - Le passage du Nord-Ouest. Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris.
    • German: Hermes V - The Northwest Passage. Translated by Michael Bischoff. Merve, Berlin 1994.
  • 1980: Le parasite. Grasset, Paris.
    • German: The parasite. Translated from the French by Michael Bischoff. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • 1983: Détachement. Flammarion, Paris.
    • German: replacement. A doctrinal fable. Klaus Boer, Munich 1986.
  • 1985: Les Cinq Sens. Philosophy des corps mêlés. Grasset, Paris.
    • German: The five senses. A philosophy of mixtures and mixtures. Translated from the French by Michael Bischoff. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • 1987: statues. Le second livre des fondations. Éditions François Bourin, Paris.
  • 1987: L'Hermaphrodite. Flammarion, Paris.
    • German: The hermaphrodite. From the French by Reinhard Kaiser . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • 1989: (Ed.) Éléments d'histoire des sciences. Bordas, Paris.
    • German: elements of a history of science. Translated by Horst Brühmann. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • 1990: Le contrat naturel. Bourin, Paris 1990.
    • German: The natural contract. Translated from the French by Hans-Horst Henschen . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • 1991: Le Tiers-Instruit. Bourin, Paris
    • German: Troubadour of knowledge. Try about learning. Translated by Karl Werner Modler. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-0340-1281-2 .
  • 1993: Les Origines de la géométrie. Tiers Livre des fondations. Flammarion, Paris.
  • 1993: La légende des Anges. Flammarion, Paris.
    • German: The legend of the angels. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • 1994: Éclaircissements. Cinq entretiens avec Bruno Latour . Bourin, Paris.
    • German: explanations. Five conversations with Bruno Latour. Translated by Gustav Roßler. Merve, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88396-242-9 .
  • 1994: Atlas. Editions Julliard, Paris
  • Michel Serres and Nayla Farouki (eds.): Thesaurus of the exact sciences. Translated from the French by Michael and Ulrike Bischoff, Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-86150-620-3 .
  • 2001: Hominescence Le Pommier, Paris 2001.
  • 2008: Le mal propre: polluer pour s'approprier? Le Pommier, Paris 2008.
    • German: The real evil. Translated by Elisa Barth and Alexandre Plank. Merve, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-88396-260-3 .
  • Little chronicles. Sunday talks with Michel Polacco. Merve, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88396-297-9 .
  • Petite Poucette. Éditions Le Pommier, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-7465-0605-3 .
    • German: Reinvent yourselves! A declaration of love to the networked generation. Translated from the French by Stefan Lorenzer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-07117-5 .
  • 2011: Musique. Le Pommier, Paris 2011.
  • 2017: C'était mieux avant. Le Pommier, Paris 2017.
    • German: What exactly was better in the past? Translated by Stefan Lorenzer. Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-07497-8 .

literature

  • Peter Bexte : Michel Serres. In: Kathrin Busch, Iris Därmann (ed.): Image theory from France. A manual . (= Series of publications by the Basler sfb eikones). Fink, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-7705-5013-5 pp. 361-369
  • Reinhold Clausjürgens: Bibliography on Michel Serres 1961–85. In: Michel Serres: Replacement. A doctrinal fable . Translated by Klaus Boer. Boer, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-924963-04-5 pp. 39-59
  • Petra Gehring : Michel Serres. Peace talks with the great third party. In: Oliver wing, Reinhard Heil, Andreas Hetzel (Ed.): The return of the political. Democracy Theories Today . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG, Darmstadt 2004 ISBN 3-534-17435-6 Reading sample
  • Petra Gehring: Michel Serres. In: Stephan Moebius , Dirk Quadflieg (Ed.): Culture. Present theories . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2006 ISBN 3-531-14519-3
  • Michael Jakob : Conversation with Michel Serres. In dsb., Prospects of thinking. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1994, pp. 177-198
  • Richard Jochum: Complexity Management Strategies in Modern Philosophy: Michael Serres . (= Europäische Hochschulschriften, 20, 575) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-631-33622-5 . Additional: Diss. Phil. University of Vienna 1997
    • Jochum, own summary, in Trans.Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften , No. 4, June 1998
  • Bruno Latour : The Enlightenment without the Critique: A Word on Michel Serres' Philosophy. In: A. Phillips Griffiths (Ed.): Contemporary French Philosophy. Cambridge University Press , 1987, pp. 83-97
  • Peter Peinzger: Parasitism as a Philosophical Problem. Michel Serres' theory of the relations between communication theory and language criticism. Kovač, Hamburg 2007. Zugl .: Diss. Phil. Humboldt University 2004
  • Tobias Rose: Michel Serres: “The five senses” - memory. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar , 1999. Full text free of charge from Grin-Verlag (16 pages)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa-infocom GmbH: French philosopher Michel Serres died. In: welt.de . June 1, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cf. Bruno Latour: On Actor-network-theory. In: social world. 47 (1996), p. 370.
  3. ↑ in the appendix a Serres bibliography 1961–1985 by Reinhold Clausjürgens. Serres shows how Diogenes dissolves the relationships between exchange, value, purchase and sale, profit and loss. Diogenes is not poor if you compare rich and poor.
personal data
SURNAME Serres, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Agen
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2019