Michel Serres: The Parasite (1980–)

“Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.”

Originally published as Le Parasite, Grasset, 1980.

Translated, with notes, by Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1982
ISBN 0801824567, 9780801824562
255 pages

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