Introduction / Editions of Lucretius / Translator's note / 1. Protocol / 2. Mathematics / 3. Return to the Model / 4. Experiences / 5. Conditions / 6. Application: Genesis of the Text / 7. History / 8. Morality / Index
Michel Serres is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University and a member of the Academie Francaise.
Webb and Ross have provided us with an elegant and idiomatic new
translation of one of Michel Serres’s most timely and revolutionary
books, allowing English readers to experience the extraordinary
power and seductive quality of the Serresian idiom. It is my
expectation and hope that their excellent work will open the riches
of this important text to a new generation of Anglophone
scholars.
*Chris Watkin, Monash University, Australia*
This long-awaited translation will change the way we think about
materialism, and about the relationship between thought and life.
Vortices, declinations, flows: the atoms of ancient physics have
all the life and vibrancy that the twenty-first century often
thought it was discovering in its new materialism. The history of
ideas and life alters dramatically - and for the better - if we
take Serres’s thought seriously. Atoms are not static building
blocks but deviating forces, and the birth of physics was a moment
of wild difference if only we read Lucretius with the keen eye that
Serres offers.
*Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparkes Professor of English, Penn
State University*
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