Bruno Latour : How to inhabit the Earth / interviews with Nicolas Truong ; with the collaboration of Rose Vidal, translated by Julie Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truong, Nicolas, interviewer, author.

Contributor:

Latour, Bruno, interviewee, author.

Rose, Julie, 1952- translator.

Vidal, Rose, collaborator.

Standardized Title:

Comment habiter la terre. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latour, Bruno--Interviews.

Latour, Bruno.

Global environmental change.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Political ecology.

Philosophers--France--Interviews.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

v, 103 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

How to inhabit the Earth

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Hoboken : Polity Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In a series of televised interviews in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few kilometres thick - what scientists call the 'critical zone'. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth's resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time is also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781509559466

1509559469

9781509559473

1509559477

OCLC:

1403561784