Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
namics of the collective in search of good articulation, the good cos- mos. To avoid repetition, I sometimes say “entities” or “ ...
unity (nature or society), the various skills (of the sciences, politics, government, and so on) proposescenariosof unification ...
ulation of the common world—to avoid taking logocentric words (logos, “consultation,” “spokesperson”) as facile expressions of m ...
Notes Introduction It is surprising to note that, while most of the issues raised by the ecology move- ment depend entirely on ...
into a dead star, denies the meaning of its own existence, if, in the event of its constitu- tion, one does not see it embody th ...
ences from epistemology in the strict sense, the epistemology that applies philosophy to problems of knowledge without making an ...
on the other. In order to free the sciences from that politics, we have had to repoliticize Science. It is surprising to see th ...
readers may turn right away to the first section of Chapter 5, “The Two Arrows of Time.” I am well aware that there is no lack ...
To remain compatible with the terminology introduced in Latour 1993, we could also call them quasi objects. The expression “mat ...
he aims at “self-realization,” which confuses the issue, for we return finally to a solid anthropocentrism. He nevertheless addr ...
would have the philosophy to which it aspires. Unfortunately, this is not the case. An article with such a flamboyant title as “ ...
science studies, see Latour 1999b. Nothing proves that reality and unity are synonyms ( James 1996 [1909]). On the contrary, all ...
tween the two, that confuses the order of their society with the order of the world, whereas “we” know how to differentiate betw ...
Michel Serres has often made this observation, and he made it the essential ar- gument ofStatues(Serres 1987; see especially p. ...
might reach an understanding with them, contractually? But, after all, the old social contract, too, was unspoken and unwritten: ...
the long controversy over climate change. Those who wait for absolute certainty before acting are living in the wrong time. This ...
the sciences. We can get a good idea of this way of proceeding from a paragraph in Hegel’sLogicwhere Hegel criticizes Kant for h ...
François Jullien’s work ( Jullien 1995) on Chinese philosophers has the great merit of showing us to what extent Westerners hav ...
trol of the primary qualities. Concerning the same period, we can contrast Koyré’s treatment (Koyré 1957) with that of a politic ...
“Pure and autonomous” Science is still more remote from the sciences as they are prac- ticed than is Science polluted by ideolog ...
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