The «Hominescent» Body in Michel Serres Thinking
Journal Title: Philosophy International Journal - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
My contribution examines and discusses Michel Serres idea, expressed in the eighties, of the «reappropriation» of the senses (and body) in the way of aesthetics as a «reunified» discourse on the data of sensations and fine arts, and his idea expressed in the nineties of the metamorphism and mimicry of the body, reading them as emergencies of his recent idea of the new «hominescent» body; in order to focus on the latter meanings and implications. First I will examine, precisely in the horizon of Serres philosophy of hominescence, Serresian proposal «to return» to the senses and body in the perspective of aesthetics understood as said. I will then consider Serres’ theming of body metamorphism and mimicry, within which the senses are considered to act as body’s mimicry control. These steps will lead me, hopefully, to shed light on the implications of Serres’ recent idea of the «hominescent» body.
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Rignani O*
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