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Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023

For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works

Volume one of this first English translation of Michel Serres’s foundational series establishes a new way to think about the production of knowledge during the late twentieth century. With Hermes I, we observe a singular poetic philosopher seeking to bridge the gap between the liberal arts and the sciences through a profound mathematical and poetic fable regarding information theory, history, and art.