Bruno Latour in Pieces : An Intellectual Biography / Henning Schmidgen.
2014
K370 .S365 2015
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Title
Bruno Latour in Pieces : An Intellectual Biography / Henning Schmidgen.
Author
Schmidgen, Henning, author.
ISBN
9780823263721
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (194 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823263721 doi
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K370 .S365 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
340.115
Summary
Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had "never been modern." In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent-and also popular-exponents of science studies but also as a major innovator of the social sciences, an exemplary wanderer who walks the line between the sciences and the humanities.This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the Latourian oeuvre, from his early anthropological studies in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), to influential books like Laboratory Life and Science in Action, and his most recent reflections on an empirical metaphysics of "modes of existence." In the course of this enquiry it becomes clear that the basic problem to which Latour's work responds is that of social tradition, the transmission of experience and knowledge. What this empirical philosopher constantly grapples with is the complex relationship of knowledge, time, and culture.
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Custance, Gloria, contributor.
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Forms of Living
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Exegesis and Ethnology
Two. A Philosopher in the Laboratory
Three. Machines of Tradition
Four. Pandora and the History of Modernity
Five. Of Actants, Forces, and Things
Six. Science and Action
Seven. Questions Concerning Technology
Eight. The Coming Parliament
Conclusion
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. Exegesis and Ethnology
Two. A Philosopher in the Laboratory
Three. Machines of Tradition
Four. Pandora and the History of Modernity
Five. Of Actants, Forces, and Things
Six. Science and Action
Seven. Questions Concerning Technology
Eight. The Coming Parliament
Conclusion
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index