Collective(continued)
difficulties in convoking, 57–62; exoti-
cism and, 45–46; experimentation and,
205, 223; feedback loop of, 125; houses
of, 164–180, 234; human-nonhuman as-
sociations, 61, 70–82; as melting pot,
80; models of, 37–39; multiplicity and,
55; politicians and, 144; secularization
of, 89; as Third Estate, 54; two powers
of representation, 108–116, 135; unity
and, 59
Common good, 121, 128
Common sense, 7, 182, 195, 222
Common world, 93, 106, 121, 195, 206
Communism, 26
Compromise, 110, 139, 146, 159, 176
Concern, matters of, 51, 75, 96, 103, 114,
118, 145, 159, 168, 169, 180, 239, 278
Constitution, new, 8, 13–14, 42, 50, 52; an-
thropology and, 210; building of com-
mon world, 93; changing of, 74, 120;
comparative anthropology and, 42; de-
liberation and decision in, 147; due
process and, 54; ecological crises and,
57; economics and, 152, 154; external-
ization and, 125; fact-value distinction
and, 123; “green” movements and, 19;
moralists and, 160; objectivity and, 18–
19; rewriting of, 59; spokespersons
and, 64, 68; state of law and, 233.See
alsoPolitical ecology
Constitution, old (modernist), 53, 54, 62,
92, 95, 146; abandonment of, 161; bi-
nary order and, 131; democracy stifled
by, 169; economics and, 134, 154; exte-
riority and, 122, 123; matters of con-
cern and, 114; metaphysics of nature
and, 93; moralists and, 158; ordering
under, 175; public life and, 136; rejec-
tion of, 129; science-ideology distinc-
tion and, 100, 142; transcendence and,
187; two-house collective of, 56, 59, 115,
129
Consultation, 109, 111, 112, 134, 153; mor-
alists and, 155; perplexity and, 162; pol-
iticians and, 144; relevance and, 181;
scientists and, 142, 145; values and,
106, 107
Cosmograms, 145, 151, 195, 198
Cosmos,8, 41, 81, 90, 93, 183; administra-
tion of, 204; apocalypse and, 192; fab-
rication of, 101; indifference to human
passions, 54; learning curve and, 199;
moralists and, 160
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, 114
Cultures: “culture” as marked category,
49; mediated access to nature through,
32; multiplicity of, 29, 47, 48 (see also
multiculturalism); non-Western views
of the collective, 45; “others” as, 164–
165; secondary qualities and, 184
Cybernetics, 22Darwin, Charles, 88, 265n38, 271n6,
274n22
Deep ecology, 26, 27; anthropology and,
43, 44; critics of, 257n33, 276n45; de-
mocracy and, 256n28; Kantianism and,
276n44
Democracy, 3, 6, 129, 164, 182, 228; an-
cient Greeks as inventors of, 71; appeal
to Science and, 18, 135; natural neces-
sity and, 5; neutralization of, 14; new
institutions of, 42; parliamentary, 165;
representation and, 127; sciences and,
143; speech and, 69–70; State of law
and, 234; stifled by old constitution,
169.See alsoRepublic
Demos,54, 176, 185, 186, 215
Descartes, René, 93, 280n9
Dialectics, 40, 72, 77, 79, 175, 263n23
Diplomacy, 209–217, 221, 235
Domination, 81
Dualism, 94
Due process, 54, 79, 91, 135, 224; as repre-
sentation, 126; the State and, 201; to-
tality and, 199Ecological crises, 58, 63, 65, 129; meta-
physics of nature and, 128; political
philosophy and, 93; as revolt of the
means, 155–156, 216
Ecology movements, 2, 9, 251n1; concept
of nature retained by, 19; ideological
spectrum and, 5; sociology of, 7
Economics and economists, 95, 132–136,INDEX
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