Bruno Latour
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Bruno Latour

Reassembling the Political

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Bruno Latour

Reassembling the Political

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781783711987
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations for Latour’s Works Cited in the Book
  7. A Note on the Life and Thought of Bruno Latour
  8. Introduction: Truth Politics and Power Politics
  9. 1 In Search of a Latourian Political Philosophy
  10. 2 Early Latour: A Hannibal of Actants
  11. 3 Middle Latour: The Parliament of Things
  12. 4 Late Latour: Politics as a Mode
  13. 5 “Usefully Pilloried”: Latour’s Left Flank
  14. 6 “An Interesting Reactionary”: Latour’s Right Flank
  15. 7 “A Copernican Revolution”: Lippmann, Dewey, and Object-Oriented Politics
  16. 8 Concluding Remarks
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index