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Bruno Latour wendet sich seit langem gegen eine um sich greifende antiaufklärerische Haltung, die unappetitliche Verwandtschaften hervorbringt. Wie erklärt es sich, dass auch unter Intellektuellen weithin unhinterfragt Verschwörungstheorien als Wahrheiten ins Feld geführt werden? Liegt der Grund vielleicht in einem allzu lange gepflegten, exzessiven Misstrauen in unverrückbare Tatsachen, die allzu leichtfertig als ideologische Vorurteile ausgegeben werden? Generiert womöglich die Kritik selbst diese Effekte, hat sie ihre eigenen Werkzeuge nicht mehr im Griff? Latour fordert, das...

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology--transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: "Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks." Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process....

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.

The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the...

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its...