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An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns

An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns

LaTour, Bruno
Porter, Catherine

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PhilosophyAnthropology

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0674984021
ISBN13: 9780674984028
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Jun 4 2018
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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.

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