Power, 43, 53, 54, 59, 144; reversal of
power relations, 206; violence of, 175
Pre-Cambrian era, 35
Primary qualities, 47, 55, 60, 85, 141;
“cold, gray” nature of, 132; common
world and, 110; distribution of, 61; as
foundation, 142; political ecologists
and, 93; rationality of, 218; ultimate
meaning and, 152; unification of, 184
Prions, 24, 111, 112, 113, 114, 179
Procedures, 98, 107, 205
Progress, 188, 189
Propositions, 83–84, 86–87, 94, 105, 116;
collective and, 165; contribution of
politicians and, 148; with habits, 211;
rejected, 124
Prusiner, Stanley E., 113
Psychologists, 95
Public health crises, 129
Publicity, requirement of, 110–111, 113,
134, 153, 162, 176
Public life, 18, 34, 183; ancient Greeks
and, 28; centers of, 19; civil and mili-
tary versions of, 61; as composition of
common world, 222; experimentation
and, 197; externality and, 91; hope of
salvation and, 31; imitation of Science
by, 195; point of view in, 138; political
epistemology and, 88; reason and, 185;
Science and, 202; short-circuiting of,
129; speech and, 69
Rationalism, 96, 142
Realism, 34, 40, 42, 85, 168, 186
Realpolitik,160, 185
Reason, 52, 68, 94, 185, 186, 200
Recalcitrance, 81, 82, 87, 232
Reification, 80
Relativism, 12, 13, 35, 51, 173; accusations
of, 120; dangers of, 101; disappearance
of, 220; fear of, 169; realism and, 186–
187; relationism, 138
Relevance, requirement of, 110, 134, 145,
169
Religion, 13, 258n36, 285n44
“Renewable resources,” 156
Representation, 13–14, 41, 125, 146, 186;
collective’s powers of, 108–116; double
problem of, 55; due process as, 126;
economics and, 134; essences and, 188;
faithfulness of, 149; mononaturalism
and, 48; quality of, 139; speech and, 70;
Western notion of nature as, 232
Republic, 54, 55, 106, 127; excluded par-
ties and, 183, 217–218; nonhumans and,
219; as Parliament of things, 227; prop-
ositions and, 83; society of Orders and,
60; speech and, 69.See alsoDemocracy
Republic(Plato), 10
Research front, 205
Rhizomes, 24, 51
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 27, 207“Savages,” 42–43, 44
Scenarization, 137, 138, 141, 157, 205
Science, 3, 6, 11; ancient Greeks as inven-
tors of, 71; appeal to authority of, 130,
135; certainty of facts and, 139–140;
collective and, 185–186; distinguished
from sciences, 19, 32, 34–35, 94, 231;
externality of, 16–17, 38–39, 142; free-
dom and, 189; ideology and, 99–100,
102, 116; as intermediary, 4; isolation
from social world, 13; matters of fact
and, 97; “neutrality” of, 253n9, 283n33;
physical anthropology and, 210; as
politicization of the sciences, 10; pub-
lic life and, 40, 195; salvation by, 56, 57,
200; sciences assimilated to, 50; soci-
ety and, 10, 16, 92, 146; subjectivity
and, 73–74; survival of, 12
Sciences, 9–10, 217–220, 266n3; articu-
lated speech and, 89; autonomy of, 119,
120, 140; history of, 35, 36, 39, 96;
mononaturalism and, 48; multiplicity
and functions of, 187; philosophy of,
12, 55, 117, 226; politicization of, 10, 16,
17; secularization of, 223; “social con-
struction” of, 35; sociology of, 7, 9, 118,
273n21; state of law and, 91
Science studies, 37, 40, 49, 253n8, 264n26;
collective and, 28; scientific controver-
sies, 63; social constructivism and, 36
Science wars, 119, 228, 266n1;INDEX
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