Review "It is a great cause for celebration that Statues is at last available to English readers ... The book shows Serres at his audacious, restlessly inventive best, while Randolph Burks's translation catches brilliantly the tiptoe lightness of Serres's philosophical hopscotch and the gnarled gravity of his rhythms of thought." --Steven Connor, Professor of English, University of Cambridge, UK"Deleuze and Guattari define philosophy as the creation of 'concepts that are always new'. It is difficult to justify this maxim better than Michel Serres does, not the least by the title concept of this book. Serres's 'statues' embody life and death, being and becoming, space and time, and history and present to make us rethink the world, and to make us think. This is 'a general treatise on sculpture' that, Serres tells us, 'the history of philosophy has never produced'-until this book, which brings together art, philosophy, science, and technology, as only Serres's book can. An indispensible work!" --Arkady Plotnitsky, Director, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, Purdue University, USA About the Author Michel Serres is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française. A renowned and popular philosopher, he is a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses, Genesis, and Biogée. Randolph Burks is a philosopher specialising in phenomenology, philosophies of the body and philosophies of nature. He has translated several works by Michel Serres, included Biogea, Variations on the Body and The Hermaphrodite (forthcoming), as well as several excerpts from other works. He currently resides and teaches in China.
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