Bruno Latour / Gerard de Vries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vries, Gerard de, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latour, Bruno.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Science and civilization.

Science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Empirical Philosophy 1

1.1 Making Paris visible 5

1.2 The path towards 'empirical philosophy' 11

1.3 The power of addition 17

2 Science Studies 21

2.1 The 'Sociology of Scientific Knowledge' 26

2.2 An anthropologist visits a laboratory 31

2.3 Anatomy of a scientific paper 37

2.4 Realism in and about science 46

3 Science and Society 53

3.1 'The Pasteurization of France: War and Peace of Microbes' 57

3.2 'The Pasteurization of France: Irreductions' 63

3.3 Another turn after the social turn 68

3.4 The turn to ontology 76

4 Another Social Science 82

4.1 Deploying what makes up the social 87

4.2 Deploying how the social is stabilized 95

4.3 Shifting focus 100

5 A Philosophy for Our Time 114

5.1 'We Have Never Been Modern' 118

5.2 The modern Constitution 124

5.3 Relationism 129

5.4 Cosmopolites 136

6 A Comparative Anthropology of the Modems 149

6.1 A research protocol for a comparative anthropology 153

6.2 'Empirical philosophy' redefined 166

6.3 Enquiring modes of existence 174

6.4 The modern experience: fifteen modes 181

6.5 Facing 'Gaia' 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745650623

0745650627

9780745650630

0745650635

OCLC:

941714529