{"product_id":"the-five-senses-by-professor-michel-serres-9781474299640","title":"The Five Senses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarginalised by the scientific age, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With \u003ci\u003eThe Five Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, Serres traces a topology of human perception. Writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalogue it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure; we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book won the inaugural \u003ci\u003ePrix Médicis Essai\u003c\/i\u003e in 1985. The \u003ci\u003eRevelations\u003c\/i\u003e edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000780308716,"sku":"9781474299640","price":58.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25133923482712.jpg?v=1763304149","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-five-senses-by-professor-michel-serres-9781474299640","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}