Index
Account, taking into, 108, 116, 119–120,
126, 131, 233; excluded entities, 144;
fact-value distinction and, 111; require-
ments of, 109; researchers and, 140;
the State and, 201; as upper house of
the collective, 165, 173, 181
Actants, 75, 77, 80
Actors, 73, 75, 80, 81, 86, 160
Administration, 154, 204, 205, 277
Animals, 42, 44, 45, 67
Anthropocentrism, 19, 26, 88; ancient
Greeks and, 131; ethnocentrism and,
32; inanimism of nature and, 224;
modernism and, 93
Anthropology, 7, 150, 152; comparative, 9,
13, 42–49, 226, 232; diplomacy and,
212, 214; irrationality and, 216; mod-
ernism and, 165; physical, 210
Anthropomorphism, 54, 75, 77, 263n23
Apocalypticism, 4, 25, 190, 192
Appellants, 122, 126, 162, 194
Aristotle, 71
Articulation, 86, 89, 106, 107, 109, 118,
162, 172, 205, 244, 247, 263
Asbestos, 23, 24, 129, 255n20, 269n31
Association, social world as, 37, 70–82, 87
Authority, 6, 14, 17, 69, 75, 133, 222, 223,
261, 271
Barbarians, 208, 209–210, 217
Batrachians, 63, 87
Big Bang, 35, 141
Biology, 99
Biotopes, 21
Bureaucrats, 204Callicles, 52, 186
Capitalism, 93, 276n42
Cartesianism, 19
Causality, 22, 27, 28, 73, 81; chains of, 78,
152; “mad cow disease” and, 114; stabi-
lization of, 179
Cave, Platonic allegory of, 19, 31, 33, 132,
176; abandonment of, 10–18, 90, 127,
231; confused with the collective, 121;
crisis of objectivity and, 23; deep ecol-
ogy and, 27; facts and, 105; language
and, 84; legacy of, 129; models of the
collective and, 37–39; modernist de-
fense of, 189; nature-society opposition
and, 34; notion of external reality, 78;
political ecology and, 26; politics as
power and interests, 47, 50; separation
of facts and values, 101; social world as
prison, 55, 98, 149; speech and, 67, 68,
92; unity of nature and, 29
Citizens, 78, 79
Civilization, 71, 208, 210, 215
Civil society, 164
Cloning, 97, 101, 102, 198
Closure, requirement of, 111, 146, 153,
162
Collective, the, 1, 7, 8, 30; anthropology
and, 42; articulated, 82–87; civilization
and, 212; competencies of, 233; com-
position of, 232; definition of, 28;
301