| An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns Contributor(s): LaTour, Bruno (Author), Porter, Catherine (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0674984021 ISBN-13: 9780674984028 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 128 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.8" (1.50 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated--a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the institution of science, with its army of researchers and mountains of data, rather than to "capital-S Science" as a higher authority. Such modes of extension--or modes of existence, Latour argues here--account for the many differences between law, science, politics, and other domains of knowledge. "Magnificent...An Inquiry into Modes of Existence shows that [Latour] has lost none of his astonishing fertility as a thinker, or his skill and wit as a writer...Latour's main message--that rationality is 'woven from more than one thread'--is intended not just for the academic seminar, but for the public square--and the public square today is global as never before."--Jonathan Rée, Times Literary Supplement "Latour's work makes the world--sorry, worlds--interesting again." --Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books |
Contributor Bio(s): LaTour, Bruno: - Bruno Latour is Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and the 2013 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize. |