Description:
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...
Books & Edited Volumes
Date: 20--
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Translation: Cathy Porter
Language: English
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Enquête sur les modes d’existence. Une anthropologie des Modernes.
Date: 201-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
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Cogitamus
Description:
This book is a presentation in a very simple style of the course created in Sciences Po in the field of “humanités scientifiques”. Written to a student who keeps missing classes, each letter introduces the main concepts of the field of science studies and provide examples drawn from the log book each student in the class is supposed to keep in order to make...
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
Description:
Gabriel Tarde’s book on economics is the last one he published. It has been totally forgotten even though it is a masterpiece of social psychology. In many ways one can say that Tarde has been founding the sociology and anthropology of markets. The more you psychologize it (in Tarde specific sense of intra and not inter psychology) the more you will be able...
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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En Ny Sociologi For et Nyt Samfund, Introduktion til ktor-Netvaerk-Teori
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Реасемблиране на социалното : Увод в социологията на дееца-мрежа
Description:
“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
Description:
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: 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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Das Parlament der Dinge. Für eine politische Ökologie
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Politicas da natureza. Como fazer ciência na democracia,
Description:
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...
Date: 2006 [with Emilie Hermant]
Translator(s): Liz Carey-Libbrecht
Language: English
Virtual Book: Paris: Invisible City Online
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Paris Ciudad Invisible
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Parigi citta' invisible
Description:
A photographic enquiry into social theory about the city of Paris with special attention to its technical «oligoptica », a concept necessary to replace that of « panoptica ». With a very experimental layout (see Mixed Media section to live through the experience).
Date: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Language: English
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L’espoir de Pandore. Pour une version réaliste de l’activité scientifique
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Die Hoffnung der Pandora
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La esperanza de Pandora. Essayos Sobre la relidad de lo estudios de la ciencia
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A Esperança de Pandora. Ensaiois sobre a relidade dos estudos cientificos
Description:
A philosophical answer to the science war debates with special emphasis on the new type of realism which has emerged, in spite of the claims to the contrary, from science studies. A complete rewriting of the following papers: (39), (51), (54), (62), (65), (68), (70), (71)
Date: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Translator(s): Cathy Porter
Language: English
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Aramis ou l'amour des techniques
Description:
Aramis is a very high tech automated subway that was developped in France during the 80s; after its sudden demise, an investigation has been requested in the reasons of this failure; the book is the scenography of this enquiry that aims at understanding what happened to Aramis, at training readers in the booming field of technology studies and at...
Date: 1993, revised and augmented English translation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster (England), Harvard University Press (United States)
Translator(s): Catherine Porter
Language: English
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Jamais Fomos Modernos
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Mes niekada nebuvome Modernus, Simetrines antropologijos esé
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Emme ole koskaan, olleet moderneja
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Biz Hic Modern Olmadik
Description:
If science studies is right in erasing the divide between nature and society, it remains true that the readers of those work still maintain a strict dichotomy that renders them unable to register what they read in any another position than the alternative of social construction versus realism. The book explores the possible philosophical origin of this...
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