Essai – version française – Qui est Michel Serres et pourquoi lire sa philosophie ?
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The Michel Serres Foundation, hosted by the Institut de France.
Hosted by the Institut de France, the Michel Serres Foundation aims to "foster research and publications on the work of Michel Serres, as well as initiatives that put his thought into practice". In accordance with the philosopher’s wishes, the foundation has three...
9 July 2026 Essay: ‘Who Is Michel Serres and Why Should I Read Him?’
This essay is a revised opening chapter from my eBook: Michel Serres and the Planetary Emergency. Click to download: Intro-Essay 2
19 June 2026 Essay: The Global Justice Report Through the Lens of Michel Serres’ Common Story
Occasional Essay (1) Abstract The Global Justice Report was published in June 2026. The report sets out a vision for ‘global progress’ in this century that includes ‘human development and equality’ and ‘planetary habitability’. The authors set out how full income...
18 July 2026 Occasional Essays
Over the next year or so, I will be publishing in this blog occasional essays that apply Serres' philosophy to current social, cultural and political debates about the planetary emergency. The first is entitled The Global Justice Report Through the Lens of Michel...
6 June 2026 > Global Justice Report: a concrete utopia?
The Global Justice Report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) published this week tries to overcome the shortcomings of mainstream approaches to the planetary crisis, including the economic degrowth proposed by many ecologists. The authors define their basic objective...
14 May 2026 > Michel Serres and the Planetary Emergency: Free eBook offer
My eBook will be available to buy for free for five days from 18th May – 22nd May 2026. Although aimed at a wide readership, the eBook will be of particular interest to those researching transformative politics, environmental humanities, more-than-human jurisprudence...
12 April 2026 > Why Jeremy Lent’s Eco-Civilisation is Built on Shaky Ground
Jeremy Lent’s most recent book will be as inspiring as his previous works The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct. The extensive promotion material for the forthcoming book on Eco-Civilisation suggests that it will repeat an assumption about the evolution of...
4 April 2026 > Pleasing feedback on my book by a curious general reader.
I have had a few warm words from academic colleagues but particularly pleased with this feedback from a curious more general reader. I really enjoyed the book and think it hits that target of being accessible. I have no background in philosophy and thought it was...
25 March 2026 . The Fifth Element (Club of Rome)
There are so many sites with valuable information, networks and opportunities to share ideas. The Fifth Element is a programme run by the Club of Rome that seeks 'to ask better questions for the future of humanity' . They aim to provide a platform 'to support people...
Revolutionary Thinking
I was intrigued to find on the very first page of Robert Macfarlane's introduction to his wonderful Is A River Alive? a reference to Michel Serres. He says the three landscapes that he explores in his book: become a focus for revolutionary thinking about what the...
The question of a new relationship ‘with’ nature.
In Serres’ The Natural Contract published initially in 1990, there was a tendency to think in terms of a contract with nature. His later writing avoids this. Why? In many ecology movements, it is common to talk about finding a new relationship ‘with’ nature, or as a...
Is A River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane’s book Is A River Alive (2025) is thoroughly stimulating. As well as his observations of, and encounters with, three distinct landscapes and rivers in Ecuador, India and Canada, he raises many questions about how the law could be transformed to...
Going Beyond Rights
An essay by Shrishtee Bajpai. A Living Hill: reflections on animistic worldviews, stories, resistance and hope. "What if the rivers had the right to perform their ecological functions without any human-made hindrance, just like you and I have to life and speech?...