Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

cosmologies and, 282n30;
postmodernism and, 219; wars of reli-
gion and, 222, 285n44
Scientists, 4, 6, 48, 52, 120, 176; contribu-
tion of, 137–143, 162–163; contributions
of, 207; facts and, 95; Kyoto conference
and, 56; Philosopher-Scientist, 11;
power of, 53; the State and, 204
Secondary qualities, 47, 55, 56, 84, 141;
common world and, 110; distribution
of, 61; diversity of, 184; irrationality of,
218
Secularization, 89, 176, 223, 258n42
Separation of powers, 8, 14–15, 95, 167;
compatibility with the collective and,
171; contribution of politicians, 136–
137; economists and, 151; putting in or-
der, 112; reason and force in, 186; the
State and, 203
Sisyphus, myth of, 101, 102, 134
Smith, Adam, 185, 272n10
Social actors, 76–77
Social constructivism, 36, 40, 51, 54, 80–
81, 104
Social contract, 58, 185
Social Darwinism, 33
Socialism, 26
Socialization, 73, 74, 89, 118
Social sciences, 34
Society, 4, 53, 125, 184; collective as, 225;
Science and, 10; transcendence of,
275n31
Sociology, 16, 17, 36, 39, 52, 259n47
Socrates, 52, 147, 186, 197
Sovereign, the, 121, 122, 133, 164, 180
Speech impedimenta, 62–64, 103, 139,
170; apportioning of speech, 133; poli-
ticians and, 145; reality and, 85
Spokespersons, 62–70, 110, 112, 146, 232

State, the, 201–209, 281n25.See alsoLevi-

athan state

State of law, 91, 140, 152, 178, 182, 225

Subjectivity, 42, 129; as archaic irratio-

nality, 200; humans as subjects, 51;

multiplicity of, 73; speech and, 67, 70

“Sustainable development,” 156

Symbolism, 39

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de,

216

Technocracy, 5, 202

Theory, 96, 97, 118

Third Estate, 54, 55, 60

Time, two arrows of, 188–194, 235

Totalitarianism, 219, 220, 269n28

Totality, 22, 29, 199

Totalization, 141, 147

Transcendence, 175–176, 182, 185, 188, 199;

freedom from, 224; multiplicity of, 194

Twain, Mark, 191

Uncertainty, 73, 75, 82, 83, 155

Unity, 127, 133

Utopia, 5, 195, 224

Values, 30, 95–102, 105–108, 109, 150

Violence, 57, 62, 72, 114; Lysenko affair

and, 269n28; moralists and, 160; of po-

litical passions, 78; of scientific contro-

versies, 65

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 27

Western culture, 19, 28; comparative an-

thropology and, 42, 44; modernity

and, 46; public life in, 50

Witnesses, reliable, 110, 139, 144, 170, 196

Women, 33, 48–49, 69

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