Michel Serres was a polymath and interdisciplinarian avant la lettre, a poet-philosopher and académicien. Language for him was not simply a means of communication for his ideas; they originated in it, and figures of speech were his figure of thought. This issue brings into dialogue a variety of perspectives from French, British and international scholars who explore Serres’s practice of interdisciplinarity and showcase how his work has fed into and renewed fields of enquiry such as philosophy, the history of science, anthropology, geography, translation, and ecocriticism. They also bring him into dialogue with his contemporaries, especially Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. Finally, they raise the issue of what kind of ethics and politics can be inferred from Serres predilection for the “randonnée”, the journey across boundaries. Taken together, the articles make up a mosaic of perspectives that underline the relevance of Serres’ thought for the understanding of our contemporary society as well as his unique position within contemporary French thought.
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