Michel Serres
Michel Serres ( born September 1, 1930 in Agen ) is a French philosopher.
Serres is professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Stanford University. In 1990 he was admitted to the Académie française.
Career
1949 Serres entered the French Naval Academy in Brest, then in 1952 in the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), where he reached the 1955 Agrégation of Philosophy. From 1956 to 1958 he did his military service in the French Navy, in which he also took part in the Sinai War. In subsequent years, he accepted a teaching position at the University Blaise Pascal Clermont- Ferrand II, where he met with Michel Foucault and his teacher Jules Vuillemin. In 1968 he obtained his Doctorat d' État en Lettres. After a short stay following at Johns Hopkins University with the support of teaching there Frenchman René Girard in 1969 he got his Professorship of the History of Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. In 1984, a parallel appointment as professor at Stanford University. On March 29, 1990, he was elected to the Académie française on 18 Chair, to be held before him Philippe Pétain, André François-Poncet and Edgar Faure.
1994 Serres was appointed President of the Scientific Advisory Council for the Education channel France 5.
Theory
Michel Serres developed on the basis of the information model of Claude E. Shannon and influenced by cybernetic approaches to communication theory: In his theory Serres puts the messengers at the center. This messenger is " The Parasite " described in his work partly as a parasite and partly as a wildcard for the act of communication. Apprehended have, for example, this approach inter alia, in the sociological systems theory the authors Niklas Luhmann, Maren Lehmann, Dirk Baecker, but also Bruno Latour.