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The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.
The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an...
Books & Edited Volumes
Date: July 2017
Publisher: Polity Press
Translator: Cathy Porter
Language: English
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Date: April 2016
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Edited by Bruno Latour & Christophe Leclercq
Design: Donato Ricci
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Modernity has had so many meanings and combines so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the future. It crashes like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a “tabula rasa,” not another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of...
Date: 2017
Publisher: Polity Press
Translator(s): Cathy Porter
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0199256051
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Table of contents
Introduction
First Lecture: On the Instability of the (Notion of) Nature
A mutation of the relation to the world • Four ways to be driven crazy by ecology • The instability of the nature/culture relation • The invocation of human nature • The recourse to the “natural world” • On a great service rendered by the pseudo-controversy over the...
Date: 2017
Publisher: Polity Press
Translator(s): Cathy Porter
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0199256051
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Description:
Table of contents
Introduction
First Lecture: On the Instability of the (Notion of) Nature
A mutation of the relation to the world • Four ways to be driven crazy by ecology • The instability of the nature/culture relation • The invocation of human nature • The recourse to the “natural world” • On a great service rendered by the pseudo-controversy over the...
Date: August 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Translation: Cathy Porter
Language: English
Site: modesofexistence.org
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Investigacion sobre los modos de existencia
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Existenzweisen. Eine Anthropologie der Modernen
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The result of a twenty five years inquiry, it offers a positive version to the question raised, only negatively, with the publication, in 1991, of ''We have never been modern'': if ''we'' have never been modern, then what have ''we'' been? From what sort of values should ''we'' inherit? In order to answer this question, a research protocol has been...
Date: April 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Translator(s): Heather MacLean and Cathy Porter
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0199256051
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Sur le culte moderne des dieux faitiches
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Belief is not a state of mind, but a result of the relationships between peoples; this has been known since Montaigne. The visitor knows, the visited believes; or quite the opposite, the visitor knew, the visited makes him understand that he only thought he knew. Let us apply this principle to the case of the Moderns. Everywhere they drop anchor they soon...
Date: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
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Changer de société –refaire de la sociologie
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Eine neue Soziologie für eine neue Gesellschaft- Einführung in die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
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Reensamblar lo social: Una introducción a la teoría del actor-red
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Regregando o social. Uma introduçao à Teoria do Actor Rede.
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“Everyone seems to know with what sort of forces and in which sort of materials the social world is made. I have always been struck, on the contrary, by the huge gap between the vast variety of attachments with which people elaborate their different worlds and the limited repertoire we possess in social science to account for them. I found this gap widening...
Date: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press, Cambridge
Translator(s): Marina Brilman et al.
Language: English
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La Fabbrica del Diritto. Etnografia del Consiglio di Stato
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A Fábrica do direito. Uma etnografia do Conselho de Estado
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An ethnography of the French supreme court in administrative law, the Conseil d'Etat, has been pursued between 1994 and 1999. This book is the account of this field work attempting to make a thick description of the work of judges as they come to an agreement about files. The book represents a sort of Laboratory life’ of judges at work and tries to compare...
Date: June 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Translator(s): Julie Rose
Language: English
ISBN: 9780745660066
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Rejoicing – or the torments of religious speech: that is what he wants to talk about, that is what he can’t actually seem to talk about: it’s as though the cat had got his tongue; as though he was spoilt for choice when it comes to words; as though it was impossible to articulate; he can’t actually seem to share what, for so long, he has held so dear to his...
Date: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Translator(s): Cathy Porter
Language: English
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Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie
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Politiche della natura. Per una democrazia dele scienze
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Politicas da natureza. Como fazer ciência na democracia,
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Politicas de la naturaleza. Po una democracia de las ciencias
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A political philosophy enquiry into the limits of political ecology. If nature is not a part of reality but a Constitutional arrangment to make political life impossible, what would a politics be without nature ? If this question is raised then it becomes obvious that the various green movements are not modifying the modernist project but giving it, on the...
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