Serres wrote more than 50 books, many of which are also published in the German-speaking area. In “The real Evil” is he the parasitic appropriation of the world by the people. In “Reinventing you, new! A love letter to the networked Generation,” calls on it to use the technological change as an opportunity to think of everything in a new way – ranging from the education system to the society.

For the be Think the philosopher in 2012, has received, among other things, the German Meister-Eckhart-prize. The justification at the time was: “Brilliant insights into the structures of our thinking.”

Serres was regarded as a universal thinker and exceeded scientific boundaries. He took the approach of a holistic scientific understanding Because it is only when people learn to look beyond their own horizons, is the global Inferno yet avoidable, had warned Serres in books and Interviews.

The philosopher came from the southwest of France Agen. As a young adult, he joined the naval school in Brest, he began the study of philosophy and was, in 1969, Professor for the history of science at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 1984, he also started at Stanford University in the US state of California to teach. As a mediator between the Sciences, he was inducted in 1990 into the Académie française, France’s most important learned society.

(SDA)