Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together

by Michel Serres

With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby completing Le Grand Récit , the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life. Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil—are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus, and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into.

Genres: Religion, Philosophy

214 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2022

About the author

Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and author.

Reviews

[Lacey Liberty · Rating 1 out of 5]

ok guys integrity is important to me..i won't mark a book as read unless i've actually finished it..
however:
i have to dnf this. i just have to
BUT
i read like SO MUCH OF IT like i REALLY tried guys
and i refuse to have read that much of it and not get to add it to my read list
it was just SOOOOOOO BAAAAADD
do not reccomend
its literally less than 200 pages and i STILL couldn't force myself to finish it
134/191 pages
leave me alone i'm marking it as read
i deserve a win
dont read this book.