Bruno Latour (eBook)

Gerard de Vries is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Preface

1 Empirical philosophy

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Making Paris visible

1.3 The path towards 'empirical philosophy'

1.4 The power of addition

2 Science studies

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

2.3 An anthropologist visits a laboratory

2.4 Anatomy of a scientific paper

2.5 Realism in and about science

3 Science and society

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Pasteurization of France: War and Peace of Microbes

3.3 The Pasteurization of France: Irreductions

3.4 Another turn after the social turn

3.5 The turn to ontology

4 Another social science

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Deploying what makes up the social

4.3 Deploying how the social is stabilized

4.4 Shifting focus

5 A philosophy for our time

5.1 Introduction

5.2 We have never been modern

5.3 The modern Constitution

5.4 Relationism

5.5 Cosmopolitics

6 A comparative anthropology of the Moderns

6.1 Introduction

6.2 A research protocol for a comparative anthropology

6.3 'Empirical philosophy' redefined

6.4 Inquiring 'modes of existence'

6.5 The modern experience: fifteen modes

6.6 Facing 'Gaia'

7 Bibliography

Index

"For those utterly bewildered yet enthralled or those who would simply like a guide to take them through the maze of Latour's writing, the work of De Vries offers the perfect answer. De Vries' great explanatory style and the clear guiding lines that the books sets out makes this a very valuable resource for anyone who wishes to study Latour without getting lost."

Waterstones Amsterdam