Books & Edited Volumes

Date: 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass
Translator(s): A. Sheridan and J. Law
Language: English

Other Translations:
  • I Microbi: Trattato scientifico-politico
  • Bakteriologie und Moderne. Studien zur Biopolitik des Unsichtbaren, 1870-1930
Description:
The book is made of two parts: the first one is a detailed exploration of the litterature around Pasteur’s rise from obscurity to fame and of the corresponding transformations of microbes from invisibility to prominence; the impossibility of a social explanation of science is then explored in a second part which provides the ontological basis for what has...

Date: 1979 [with Steve Woolgar. 1986: Reprinted in a revised paperback edition «Laboratory Life: the Construction of Scientific Facts » Princeton University Press, Princeton]
Publisher: Sage, Los Angeles
Language: English

Other Translations:
  • La Vie de laboratoire– La production des faits scientifiques
  • La vida en el laboratorio. La construccion de los hechos cientificos
  • A Vida de Laboratorio. A Produçao dos Fatos Cientificos
  • Laboratory Life in Corean
Description:
The result of a two-year ethnographic enquiry into the neuroendocrinology laboratory of Professor Roger Guillemin in La Jolla, California; the book explores the different steps in the construction of scientific facts and frame the different issues of the then emerging science studies.

Date: 2011 [Edited by Bruno Latour, Graham Harman & Peter Erdelyi]
Publisher: Zero Books, Winchester UK
Language: English

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No Other Translations Available
Description:
The Prince and the Wolf. Latour and Harman at the LSE
Coping with the Past –Creative Perspectives on Conservation and Restoration

Date: 2010 [Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Bruno Latour & Pedro Memelsorff]
Publisher: Duke University Press
Translator(s): Leo S. Olschki publisher, Firenze
Language: English

Other Translations:
No Other Translations Available
Description:
Coping with the Past –Creative Perspectives on Conservation and Restoration

Date: 1995 [by Michel Serres with Bruno Latour]
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Translator(s): Roxanne Lapidus
Language: English

Other Translations:
  • Luzes. Cinco entrevistas com Bruno Latour
  • Aufklärungen. Fünf Gespräche mit Bruno Latour
Description:
Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds...