We have never been modern / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter.

By:

Latour, Bruno

Contributor(s):

Porter, Catherine [Translated by ]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Harvard University Press, 1993. Cambridge:Description: ix, 157 pISBN:

9780674948396

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.483 LAT-W

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- 1. Crisis -- 1.1. The Proliferation of Hybrids -- 1.2. Retying the Gordian Knot -- 1.3. The Crisis of the Critical Stance -- 1.4. 1989: The Year of Miracles -- 1.5. What Does It Mean To Be A Modern? -- 2. Constitution -- 2.1. The Modern Constitution -- 2.2. Boyle and His Objects -- 2.3. Hobbes and His Subjects -- 2.4. The Mediation of the Laboratory -- 2.5. The Testimony of Nonhumans -- 2.6. The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan -- 2.7. Scientific Representation and Political Representation -- 2.8. The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern -- 2.9. The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God -- 2.10. The Power of the Modern Critique -- 2.11. The Invincibility of the Moderns -- 2.12. What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures -- 2.13. The End of Denunciation -- 2.14. We Have Never Been Modern -- 3. Revolution -- 3.1. The Moderns, Victims of Their Own Success -- 3.2. What Is a Quasi-Object? -- 3.3. Philosophies Stretched Over the Yawning Gap -- 3.4. The End of Ends -- 3.5. Semiotic Turns -- 3.6. Who Has Forgotten Being? -- 3.7. The Beginning of the Past -- 3.8. The Revolutionary Miracle -- 3.9. The End of the Passing Past -- 3.10. Triage and Multiple Times -- 3.11. A Copernican Counter-revolution -- 3.12. From Intermediaries to Mediators -- 3.13. Accusation, Causation -- 3.14. Variable Ontologies -- 3.15. Connecting the Four Modern Repertoires -- 4. Relativism -- 4.1. How to End the Asymmetry -- 4.2. The Principle of Symmetry Generalized -- 4.3. The Import-Export System of the Two Great Divides -- 4.4. Anthropology Comes Home from the Tropics -- 4.5. There Are No Cultures -- 4.6. Sizeable Differences -- 4.7. Archimedes' coup d'etat -- 4.8. Absolute Relativisim and Relativist Relativism -- 4.9. Small Mistakes Concerning the Disenchantment of the World -- 4.10. Even a Longer Network Remains Local at All Points -- 4.11. The Leviathan is a Skein of Networks -- 4.12. A Perverse Taste for the Margins -- 4.13. Avoid Adding New Crimes to Old -- 4.14. Transcendences Abound -- 5. Redistribution -- 5.1. The Impossible Modernization -- 5.2. Final Examinations -- 5.3. Humanism Redistributed -- 5.4. The Nonmodern Constitution -- 5.5. The Parliament of Things -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Acknowledgements --
1. Crisis --
1.1. The Proliferation of Hybrids --
1.2. Retying the Gordian Knot --
1.3. The Crisis of the Critical Stance --
1.4. 1989: The Year of Miracles --
1.5. What Does It Mean To Be A Modern? --
2. Constitution --
2.1. The Modern Constitution --
2.2. Boyle and His Objects --
2.3. Hobbes and His Subjects --
2.4. The Mediation of the Laboratory --
2.5. The Testimony of Nonhumans --
2.6. The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan --
2.7. Scientific Representation and Political Representation --
2.8. The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern --
2.9. The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God --
2.10. The Power of the Modern Critique --
2.11. The Invincibility of the Moderns --
2.12. What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures --
2.13. The End of Denunciation --
2.14. We Have Never Been Modern --
3. Revolution --
3.1. The Moderns, Victims of Their Own Success --
3.2. What Is a Quasi-Object? --
3.3. Philosophies Stretched Over the Yawning Gap --
3.4. The End of Ends --
3.5. Semiotic Turns --
3.6. Who Has Forgotten Being? --
3.7. The Beginning of the Past --
3.8. The Revolutionary Miracle --
3.9. The End of the Passing Past --
3.10. Triage and Multiple Times --
3.11. A Copernican Counter-revolution --
3.12. From Intermediaries to Mediators --
3.13. Accusation, Causation --
3.14. Variable Ontologies --
3.15. Connecting the Four Modern Repertoires --
4. Relativism --
4.1. How to End the Asymmetry --
4.2. The Principle of Symmetry Generalized --
4.3. The Import-Export System of the Two Great Divides --
4.4. Anthropology Comes Home from the Tropics --
4.5. There Are No Cultures --
4.6. Sizeable Differences --
4.7. Archimedes' coup d'etat --
4.8. Absolute Relativisim and Relativist Relativism --
4.9. Small Mistakes Concerning the Disenchantment of the World --
4.10. Even a Longer Network Remains Local at All Points --
4.11. The Leviathan is a Skein of Networks --
4.12. A Perverse Taste for the Margins --
4.13. Avoid Adding New Crimes to Old --
4.14. Transcendences Abound --
5. Redistribution --
5.1. The Impossible Modernization --
5.2. Final Examinations --
5.3. Humanism Redistributed --
5.4. The Nonmodern Constitution --
5.5. The Parliament of Things --
Bibliography --
Index.

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