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  • Reassembling the Social:An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • We Have Never Been Modern

    by Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Laboratory Life

    The Construction of Scientific Facts

    by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar ...
    This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • After Lockdown

    A Metamorphosis

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Politics of Nature

    How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Pandora’s Hope

    Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

    by Bruno Latour ...
    A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book, Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new “bête noire of the science worshipers,” gives us his most philosophically ... Read more

    $32.89 USD

  • Down to Earth

    Politics in the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people.What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Pasteurization of France

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Alan Sheridan, John Law ...
    What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur’s success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (both military ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter, Sam Ferguson ...
    In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Aramis, or The Love of Technology

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. The story of the birth and death of Aramis—the guided-transportation system intended for Paris—is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Bruno Latour

    Reassembling the Political

    by Graham Harman ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's ... Read more

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