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082			_a303.483 LAT
100			_aLatour, Bruno
245			_aWe Have Never Been Modern _c/ Bruno Latour
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts _b: Harvard University Press, _c1993.
300			_aix, 157 pages _b : illustrations _c; 23 cm
365			_b2187
505			_a Crisis -- Constitution -- Revolution -- Relativism -- Redistribution.
520			_aWith 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
650			_aSocial Sciences
650			_aSocial Processes
650			_aScience -- Social aspects.
650			_aScience -- History.
650			_aModerne
650			_aScience -- Philosophy
650			_aAnthropologie
700			_aLatour, Bruno
942			_cBOOK