French philosopher Michel Serres taught at Stanford for nearly 30 years. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)
A member of the prestigious Académie Française, Michel Serres taught at Stanford's Department of French and Italian for nearly 30 years. He died June 1 at 88. Philosopher Michel Serres, a well-known public intellectual in France and a Stanford professor emeritus of French, died from lung cancer on June 1 at his home in France. He was 88. Serres, who taught at Stanford for nearly 30 years, worked on the philosophy of science, where he explored subjects like death, ecology and time. A member of the prestigious French Academy (Académie Française), Serres was charismatic, intellectually brilliant and a philosopher of the masses, according to his friends and colleagues. Serres sought to achieve a big-picture narrative about human culture and historical change, said Stanford Professor of Italian literature Robert Harrison.
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