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Bruno Latour (1947–2022)

Author of We Have Never Been Modern

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About the Author

Bruno LaTour was born in the French province of Burgundy, where his family has been making wine for many generations. He was educated in Dijon, where he studied philosophy and Biblical exegesis. He then went to Africa, to complete his military service, working for a French organization similar to show more the American Peace Corps. While in Africa he became interested in the social sciences, particularly anthropology. LaTour believes that through his interests in philosophy, theology, and anthropology, he is actually pursuing a single goal, to understand the different ways that truth is built. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, LaTour has written about the philosophy and sociology of science in an original, insightful, and sometimes quirky way. Works that have been translated to English include The Pasteurization of France; Laboratory Life; Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society; We Have Never Been Modern; and Aramis, or the Love of Technology. LaTour is a professor at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, a division of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The following books are distinct and should not be combined: the books Reassembling the Social, Making Things Public, Pandora's Hope, Aramis, The Pasteurization of France, and We Have Never Been Modern are 6 distinct works.

Works by Bruno Latour

We Have Never Been Modern (1991) 943 copies
Laboratory Life (1979) 350 copies
The Pasteurization of France (1984) 149 copies
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005) — Editor — 97 copies
Où atterrir ? (2017) 65 copies
Cogitamus (2010) 26 copies
Où suis-je ? (2021) 21 copies
Paris ville invisible (1998) 14 copies
Biz Hiç Modern Olmadık (2021) 4 copies
Le Public fantôme (2008) 4 copies
Onde aterrar? (2020) 2 copies
Oog in oog met Gaia (2021) 1 copy

Associated Works

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986) — Foreword, some editions — 382 copies
Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (1995) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Great Regression (2017) — Contributor — 28 copies
Luonnon politiikka (2003) 8 copies

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"Si en Nunca fuimos modernos Latour hablaba de una antropología simétrica, en esta obra se propone describir, desde la antropología, un “frente de modernización” irreversible. Para señalar los valores múltiples y contradictorios que atañen a los autodenominados “modernos” es necesario, primero, aceptar que existen múltiples órdenes de verdad, múltiples tipos de razón, múltiples modos de existencia, cuyas condiciones de felicidad e infelicidad deberán ser establecidas con cuidado por el investigador. Podemos, ahora sí, revisitar el corazón de nuestra vida colectiva: las ciencias, la técnica, pero también el derecho, la religión, la política y, por supuesto, la economía, esa “segunda naturaleza”, la más extraña y etnocéntrica de todas las producciones humanas". (Descripción editorial).… (more)
 
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Perroteca_ | 1 other review | Apr 6, 2024 |
"Contaminación de los ríos; embriones congelados; coronavirus; sida; agujero de ozono; robots... ¿Cómo comprender estos objetos extraños que invaden nuestro mundo? ¿Proceden de la naturaleza o de la cultura? Hasta aquí; las cosas eran simples: para los científicos; la gestión de esta división tradicional del trabajo no puede explicar la proliferación de híbridos. De ahí el sentimiento de pavor que generan y que los filósofos contemporáneos no consiguen disipar. ¿Y si hubiéramos tomado el camino errado? De hecho; nuestra sociedad moderna nunca funcionó de acuerdo a la gran división que sustenta su sistema de representación del mundo: la que opone radicalmente la naturaleza a la cultura. En la práctica; los modernos no dejaron de crear objetos híbridos; que proceden tanto de la una como de la otra y que se niegan a pensar. Nunca fuimos verdaderamente modernos; y hoy en día; para comprender nuestro mundo; hay que cuestionar ese paradigma fundador (...) Bruno Latour abrió nuevos campos de investigación y brindó a la ecología posibilidades políticas inéditas". (Descripción editorial).… (more)
 
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Perroteca_ | 6 other reviews | Apr 5, 2024 |
Not the most readable of Latour's books, but exposure to it is no bad thing, and inevitably elements of his thinking can gradually infiltrate readers' perspectives. Worth the effort.
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sfj2 | 6 other reviews | Apr 3, 2024 |
Loaned to my father-in-law, a microbiologist, who seems to have enjoyed it too.
 
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