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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674948396 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME |
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| Distributor Name |
:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors |
| Distributor address |
:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 |
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:IM2490 |
| Bill Date |
:18/07/2019 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
303.483 LAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Latour, Bruno |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
We Have Never Been Modern |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/ Bruno Latour |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1993. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 157 pages |
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: illustrations |
| Dimensions |
; 23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
2187 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Crisis --<br/>Constitution --<br/>Revolution --<br/>Relativism --<br/>Redistribution. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
With the rise of science, moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour's analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming--and rather than try, Latoru suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity iteself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture--and so, between our culture and others, past and presen |
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Social Sciences |
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Social Processes |
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Science -- History. |
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Moderne |
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Science -- Philosophy |
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Anthropologie |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Latour, Bruno |
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Books |
