Instruments, 137, 138, 158, 196
Intermediaries, 64, 67
Irrationality, 94, 129, 190, 200, 215, 216
Kakosmos(bad common world), 99
Kant, Immanuel, 155, 157, 216, 276n44
Kantianism, 51, 155, 257n30, 262n16
Knowledge, 10, 27, 33, 118; absolute, 74,
201; asceticism of, 14; history of the
sciences and, 36; limits of, 15; philoso-
phy of, 84; politics and, 185; process of
fabrication and, 117; production of, 99;
secondary qualities and, 47; silence of
nature and, 92
Kyoto conference (1997), 56, 65, 107,
261n4
Laboratories, 11, 13, 52, 62, 75; causality in
experiments, 81; facts in, 103; perplex-
ity and, 137; public life and, 69, 121;
scientific controversies in, 63–64, 66;
socialization and, 77; work of fabrica-
tion in, 266n3
Language, 37, 47, 118, 152; articulation of
the collective and, 83, 84, 85; pluriverse
and, 85; propositions and, 148
Law, 23, 81, 180, 204.See alsoState of law
Learning compact, 207
Learning curve, 194–200
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 164, 177
Lenin, V. I., 207
Leviathan state, 202, 203, 218, 235, 285n43
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 208, 259n51, 284n41
Logocentrism, 66, 221
Logos,84, 90, 132, 183, 208
Lysenko affair, 100, 269n28
“Mad cow disease,” 24, 111–113, 179
Marx, Karl, 93, 267n9, 271n10
Metaphysics, 60–61, 69, 152; bad reputa-
tion of, 128; essences and, 178; experi-
mental, 123, 129, 131, 201, 204–205, 235;
facts-values opposition and, 102; iden-
tity-based, 173
Metaphysics of nature, 127, 130, 175, 200–
201, 215; articulated collective and, 82;
nature-society distinction and, 60; old
Constitution and, 93; Science and, 141.
See alsoNature
Middle Ages, 29, 30
Militant practice, 19, 20, 32, 80
Modernism, 21, 23, 27, 65, 93; civilization
defined by, 208; clandestine
bicameralism of, 135; concept of na-
ture, 129; confusions of, 188–189;
disinvention of, 193; economics as, 132,
153; in historical perspective, 183;
houses of the collective and, 174; Kant-
ianism as, 155; law and, 273n15; moral-
ity and, 160, 179; nature-culture oppo-
sition and, 284n40; “others” and, 165;
subjectivity and, 200; time and, 235.
See alsoConstitution, old (modernist)
Modernity, 46, 253n6
Monism, 94
Monoculturalism, 48
Mononaturalism, 33, 48, 130, 184, 219, 220
Montesquieu, Baron de, 147
Moralists, 176, 206; contributions of,
154–161, 162–163, 207; power of the
State and, 204; on reason and force,
186
Morality, 3, 19, 57, 99; economics and,
133; excluded entities and, 198; purity
of, 117, 119; science and, 98; transcen-
dent moral principle, 124; utilitarian-
ism and, 276n43
Mother Earth, 26, 43, 44, 197, 199, 259n50
Multiculturalism, 29, 33, 36, 184; diplo-
macy and, 215; mononaturalism and,
130; Science and, 218; tolerance of,
283n36; unified nature and, 47, 48;
value judgments and, 210
Multinaturalism, 29, 211, 219, 284n38
Multiplicity, 133, 174
Myth, 10, 16, 68, 79Napoleon I, emperor of France, 216
Naturalization, 73, 74, 89, 118, 136, 234; as
dress rehearsal, 141; “modern times”
and, 189; society and, 279n4; the State
and, 206
Nature, 4, 29, 40, 53; abandonment of
concept of, 91; cultures and, 8, 29; de-INDEX
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