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An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

An Anthropology of the Moderns

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence( )
Author: Latour, Bruno
Porter, Catherine
ISBN:978-0-674-72499-0
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $46.50
Book Description:

In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.

Book Details
Pages:520
Detailed Subjects: History / Civilization
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.552 x 9.477 x 1.547 Inches
Book Weight:1.998 Pounds
Author Biography
Latour, Bruno (Author)
Bruno LaTour was born in the French province of Burgundy, where his family has been making wine for many generations. He was educated in Dijon, where he studied philosophy and Biblical exegesis. He then went to Africa, to complete his military service, working for a French organization similar to the American Peace Corps. While in Africa he became interested in the social sciences, particularly anthropology.

LaTour believes that through his interests in philosophy, theology, and anthropology, he is actually pursuing a single goal, to understand the different ways that truth is built. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, LaTour has written about the philosophy and sociology of science in an original, insightful, and sometimes quirky way. Works that have been translated to English include The Pasteurization of France; Laboratory Life; Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society; We Have Never Been Modern; and Aramis, or the Love of Technology.

LaTour is a professor at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, a division of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, in Paris.

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