1. Michel Serres's works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose.
10 Facts About Michel Serres
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The son of a bargeman, Serres entered France's naval academy, the Ecole Navale, in 1949 and the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1952.
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Michel Serres served as a professor of French at Stanford University.
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Michel Serres earned a reputation as a spell-binding lecturer and as the author of remarkably beautiful and enigmatic prose so reliant on the sonorities of French that it is considered practically untranslatable.
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Michel Serres took as his subjects such diverse topics as the mythical Northwest Passage, the concept of the parasite, and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Michel Serres was an influence on intellectuals such as Bruno Latour, Robert Pogue Harrison, and Jonathan Bate.
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Michel Serres was a vocal enthusiast for freely accessible knowledge, especially Wikipedia.
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Michel Serres died on 1 June 2019, at the age of 88.
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In 1990, Michel Serres was elected to the Academie francaise, in recognition of his position as one of France's most prominent intellectuals.
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In 2012, Michel Serres was awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize and in 2013 he was awarded the Dan David Prize.