fense of, 185; end of, 25–32, 231–232;
externality of, 91; history opposed to,
166; humanity’s removal from con-
straints of, 27; “in general,” 59; non-
Western cultures and, 42–43; politics
of, 1–8, 19–20; protection of, 20, 21, 27,
80; relation to political ecology, 5, 9,
19; sciences and, 10; “social construc-
tion” of, 32, 33; social representations
of, 32–41; society and, 109; third na-
ture, 131–136; totalization of, 124; as
unmarked category, 49.See alsoMeta-
physics of nature
Naturpolitik,19, 30, 32, 47, 185; excluded
entities and, 211; hidden work of na-
ture and, 92; war and peace in, 218
Negotiation, 175, 217
Noise pollution, 5
Nonhumans, 42, 52, 126; consultation
and, 170; historicity and, 123; as ob-
jects, 51; relations with humans, 70–82,
94, 136, 143; speech prosthesis of, 67,
68, 69; voting rights and, 60, 69
Objectivity, 4, 42; as apocalypse, 190, 192;
cosmosand, 54; crisis of, 18–25, 129,
231; language and, 37; morality and, 98;
muteness of, 79; political procedure
and, 55; as salvation from elsewhere,
224; speech and, 67, 70; status of
nonhumans and, 50
Object-subject opposition, 76, 78, 82, 86,
89–90
Occidentalism, 45
Oikos(common dwelling), 180–183, 192,
279n7
Old Regime.SeeConstitution, old (mod-
ernist)
Ontology, 29, 36, 41, 83, 167; distin-
guished from politics, 115; excluded
parties and, 179
Order, putting in, 112, 119, 125, 126, 131,
233; deliberation-decision distinction
and, 147; as lower house of the collec-
tive, 165, 181; researchers and, 140; the
State and, 201
Orientalism, 45
Paradigm, 97, 157
Perplexity, 104, 110, 111, 134, 153, 205; ex-
ternal reality and, 162, 181; facts and,
140; moralists and, 155; propositions
and, 109; scientists’ contributions and,
137, 142
Philosophers, 128
Philosophy, 131
Physics, 99, 138, 261n7, 274n22
Plants, 45
Plato, 10, 13, 16, 93, 99, 183
Pluriverse, 40, 41, 52, 73; articulation and,
118; experimentation and, 199; facts
and, 103; metaphysics and, 60, 72;
propositions and, 83
Political ecology, 1–8, 20, 58; absolute
knowledge and, 74; anthropology and,
44; comparison with feminism, 49;
definitions of, 57; democracy and, 172;
disinvention of modernism, 193–194;
division of labor and, 148–149; eco-
nomics and, 136; end of modernism
and, 130; goal of, 126; “green” parties
and, 226; history of the sciences and,
36; modernism and, 27; morality and,
160; objectivity and, 18–25; Platonic
myth of Cave and, 231; propositions
and, 83–84; public life and, 31; science
studies and, 40; speech and, 68; time
and, 190, 195; uncertainty and, 25, 26.
See alsoConstitution, new
Political philosophy, 62–63, 65, 93, 159,
185
Political science, 202
Politicians, 4, 6, 52, 89, 120, 176; consulta-
tion and, 170–171; contributions of,
143–150, 162–163, 207; Kyoto confer-
ence and, 56; metaphysics and, 127;
moralists and, 158; natural resources
and, 28; power of the State and, 204;
values and, 95
Politics, 17, 18, 40, 185, 202; circumven-
tion of, 87; death of nature and, 26;
ideological spectrum, 226–227; relation
to nature, 28; as shared common
world, 47, 50, 53, 122, 235
Postmodernism, 191, 219, 254n13INDEX
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