Michel Serres: The Natural Contract (1990)
<p>Michel Serres is an outsider. Despite the commercial success of some of his books and, later in life, a prominent presence in the mass media, Serres never really established a significant following (unlike contemporaneous French thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida, for instance).</p>
<p>A number of elements may help to explain that state of affairs. Serres read mathematics and philosophy but never made common cause with the philosophical mainstream of the day (be it existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism or psychoanalytics). He wrote his doctoral thesis on the work of then unfashionable 17th century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. His teaching posts — principally at Paris Sorbonne and at Stanford — were peripheral to core philosophy curricula.</p>
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