Bruno Latour (Paperback)

Preface

1 Empirical philosophy

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Making Paris visible

1.3 The path towards 'empirical philosophy'

1.4 The power of addition

2 Science studies

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

2.3 An anthropologist visits a laboratory

2.4 Anatomy of a scientific paper

2.5 Realism in and about science

3 Science and society

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Pasteurization of France: War and Peace of Microbes

3.3 The Pasteurization of France: Irreductions

3.4 Another turn after the social turn

3.5 The turn to ontology

4 Another social science

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Deploying what makes up the social

4.3 Deploying how the social is stabilized

4.4 Shifting focus

5 A philosophy for our time

5.1 Introduction

5.2 We have never been modern

5.3 The modern Constitution

5.4 Relationism

5.5 Cosmopolitics

6 A comparative anthropology of the Moderns

6.1 Introduction

6.2 A research protocol for a comparative anthropology

6.3 'Empirical philosophy' redefined

6.4 Inquiring 'modes of existence'

6.5 The modern experience: fifteen modes

6.6 Facing 'Gaia'

7 Bibliography

Index