Biography of an inquiry: On a book about modes of existence
Author(s) -
Bruno Latour
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
social studies of science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1460-3659
pISSN - 0306-3127
DOI - 10.1177/0306312712470751
Subject(s) - epistemology , biography , field (mathematics) , sociology , mode (computer interface) , work (physics) , philosophy , computer science , art history , mathematics , history , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , operating system
Since the Inquiry on Modes of Existence has been long in coming and has connections with all the successive field works done by the author, the paper tries to retrace the main steps that have led to the project. It shows that it has preceded the work done in actor-network theory and explains the link between philosophy and anthropology through the peculiar notion of ‘mode of existence’.
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