An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
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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 R e, Times Literary Supplement "Latour's work makes the world--sorry, worlds--interesting again."
--Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674984021
ISBN13:9780674984028
Release Date:June 2018
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:520 Pages
Weight:3.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.7" x 8.8"
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