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Parasites, principles and the problem of attachment to place.
- Source :
- History of the Human Sciences; Aug2006, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p83-108, 26p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- This article is concerned with exploring the idea of places as providing persons with nourishment. This version of person-place relations is displayed in a paper by McHugh and, in provocative fashion, in Michel Serres's analysis of the human condition as a parasitic one. Unlike McHugh, Serres combines his analysis of parasites with a concern that principled actors may be insufficiently attached to places. His views are revealed in his interpretations of works by Molière and Plato. By reinterpreting these works, I try to suggest that Serres's well-founded scepticism as to the level of commitment of principled actors to the places that, as he rightly points out, are nourishing them, may not apply to the sub-set of principled actors who deserve to be called particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09526951
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- History of the Human Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22177311
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695106066543