{"product_id":"bruno-latour-in-pieces-9780823263707","title":"Bruno Latour in Pieces","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBruno Latour is one of the major figures of contemporary thought. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Latourian oeuvre, spanning from his early work in the sociology and anthropology of science to his recent philosophy of multiple “modes of existence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Schmidgen's level-headed and comprehensive survey of Bruno Latour's career offers contemporary readers a desperately needed aid to navigate the multi-pronged and disparate engagements of this important contemporary scholar and public intellectual. Schmidgen excavates the role of exegesis dating from Latour's training in philosophy, showing how it shapes his ethnological studies of the practices of science and his contributions to the sociology of science and science studies, as well as his theorization of the Actor-Network constellation and his recent makeover as a philosopher of \"modes of existence.\" Schmidgen's Latour is a thinker of many faces, and like the Whiteheadian actuality Latour so admires, his thinking comes from prehending the thought of a host other thinkers: thinkers with whom he resonates, like Deleuze and Guattari and Michel Serres, his friend Isabelle Stengers, but also the Catholic philosopher Charles Peguy , the Lutheran theologian Rudolf Bultmann, and the philosoher Etienne Souriau, as well as thinkers from whom he seeks distance, philosophers of historical epistemology like Canguilhem, Pierre Macherey and Dominique Lecourt, the ethnographer Marc Auge, Foucault and Lyotard. What emerges from Schmidgen's portrait is a nuanced and complex understanding of the vicissitudes of Latour's career that will do much to help English-speaking readers get to the heart of what makes Latour tick.\" -- -Mark Hansen Duke University, author of New Philosophy of New Media \"In this accessible study of Bruno Latour's wide-ranging thought, Henning Schmidgen covers the waterfront, from Latour's early writings on exegesis to his recent studies of ecology, technologies, and modes of being. Henning Schmidgen has given us a diagram, as it were, of Latour's ever-evolving work, which Schmidgen always returns to the back and forth between Latour's empirical studies and his reflections on the idea of a network connected particulars without a fundamental root. Along the way, we pass through the landscape of modern french philosophy-Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres to be sure, but alongside them a panoply of figures from across the disciplinary map-epistemologists, semioticians, sociologists, theologians. A remarkable introduction to the thought of a remarkable thinker.\" -- -Peter L. Galison Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents       List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works       Introduction       1. Exegesis and Ethnology      Studies in Dijon      Peguy's Inscriptions      The Problem of Repetition      Exegeses, Re-readings, Revisions      Ideology      The Production of Lack       2. The Philosopher in the Laboratory      At the Salk Institute      Laboratory Reports      Guillemin's History      High-tech, the Beach, and the Post-structuralists      Science as an Agonistic Field      The Rhetoric of Science       3. Machines of Tradition      Laboratory Life      Desks versus Machines      History and Construction      Take from Science the Idea of Science?       4. Pandora and the History of Modernity      Pandora Years      The Pasteur Project      \"Give me a laboratory\"      Sociology and Bacteriology       5. Of Actants, Forces, and Things      Actors and Actants      The Politics of Knowledge      Irreductionism      Interlude with Comte      A History of Things       6. Science and Action      An Anthropology of Science      In the Hinterland of the Texts      Great Divides, Large Networks      From \"Immutable Mobiles\" to \"Centres of Calculation\"      Media Studies       7. Questions Concerning Technology      The Exegesis of Modernity      The Turn to Technology      Have We Never Been Post-Modern?      Technology - A Mode of Existence      The Agonistic Field Strikes Back      The Crisis of the Networks       8. The Coming Parliament      Assembling      Rejoicing      Judging      Walking      Liquefying      Summarizing       Conclusion       Notes       Appendix       Acknowledgements       Bibliography       Timeline","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866017149271,"sku":"9780823263707","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823263707.jpg?v=1722276645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bruno-latour-in-pieces-9780823263707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}