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Politics of Nature

How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

Politics of Nature( )
Author: Latour, Bruno
Translator: Porter, Catherine
ISBN:978-0-674-01347-6
Publication Date:Apr 2004
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology. Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society--and the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced.

Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Ecology
Political Science / Political Process / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:1.15 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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