00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862388101 Buklod 20210228222126.0 m | | ta 210228s1993 maua rb |001 0|eng d 0674948394 (pbk.) 9780674948396 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00039347591 OLC BAG rda eng fre Q 175.5 L3813 1993 Latour, Bruno author. We have never been modern Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press [1993] ix, 157 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-153) and index. Crisis -- Constitution -- Revolution -- Relativism -- Redistribution. 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, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. 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 present. Science Social aspects. Technology Social aspects. Science Philosophy. Science History. Porter, Catherine 1941- translator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Q 175.5 L3813 1993 Book