Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political

ISBN-13: 9780745333991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str.

Graham Harman

Opis

Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman s book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour s early period encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt then finishing with his final development into the Lippmann / Dewey debate. Harman brings these twists and turns into sharp focus in terms of Latour s personal political thinking.
Along with Latour s most important articles on political themes, the book chooses three works as exemplary of the distinct periods in Latour s thinking: "The Pasteurization of France," "Politics of Nature," and the recently published "An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence," as his conception of politics evolves from a global power struggle between individuals, to the fabrication of fragile parliamentary networks, to just one mode of existence among many others."