Musique
Michel Serres(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2027
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-5013-3434-4 (ISBN)
Description
French philosopher Michel Serres' English translation explores the relationship between random sounds, music and meaning.
In his book Musique, Michel Serres asks himself: where do the sounds of the world come from? The sounds of nature, animals, human beings? And where does music come from? Available for the first time in English, this book practices its title as much as it rethinks it, offering a sound analysis of everything. Music, this way, is not limited to melodies, harmonies and rhythms, but echoes just as well the life of Jesus, the mathematics of the Earth and a theory of everything. The key here is the concept of tension, in French etymologically related to both time (temps) and space (étendue), which allows Serres to conceptualize music as a universal force, as undetermined and 'white' (the combination of every possible color), that gives rise to both time and space, both matter and the immaterial, whose movements shape the world as we know it. In line with both the oldest theories of nature (Lucretius) and the newest ones (string theory), Serres offers us a reading of music that therefore resonates with all the fields of knowledge.More details
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-3434-4 (9781501334344)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Michel Serres was Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française, France. A renowned and popular philosopher, he was a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as The Five Senses (2008), Genesis (1995), and Biogée (2013).