Politics of Nature How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

Name: Politics of Nature How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
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ISBN: 9780674013476

ISBN-10: 0674013476

ISBN-13: 9780674013476

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bruno Latour, Catherine Porter

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A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology--transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: "Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks." Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society--and the constitution, in its…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice-President for Research at the Sciences Po, Paris.



Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology?



Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature


First, Get Out of the Cave


Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity?


The End of Nature


The Pitfall of "Social Representations" of Nature


The Fragile Aid of Comparative Anthropology


What Successor for the Bicameral Collective?



How to Bring the Collective Together


Difficulties in Convoking the Collective


First Division: Learning to Be Circumspect with Spokespersons


Second Division: Associations of Humans and Nonhumans


Third Division between Humans and Nonhumans: Reality and Recalcitrance


A More or Less Articulated Collective


The Return to Civil Peace



A New Separation of Powers


Some Disadvantages of the Concepts of Fact and Value


The Power to Take into Account and the Power to Put in Order


The Collective's Two Powers of Representation


Verifying That the Essential Guarantees Have Been Maintained


A New Exteriority



Skills for the Collective


The Third Nature and the Quarrel between the Two "Eco" Sciences


Contribution of the Professions to the Procedures of the Houses


The Work of the Houses


The Common Dwelling, the Oikos



Exploring Common Worlds


Time's Two Arrows


The Learning Curve


The Third Power and the Question of the State


The Exercise of Diplomacy


War and Peace for the Sciences


Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!


Summary of the Argument (for Readers in a Hurry...)


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index