LEADER 03603nam 22005774a 450 001 9910454885503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03996-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039964 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805535 035 $a(EBL)3300665 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224062 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186122 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224062 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209464 035 $a(PQKB)10952145 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300665 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328843 035 $a(OCoLC)923112721 035 $a(DE-B1597)571810 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039964 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805535 100 $a20030923d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitics of nature$b[electronic resource] $ehow to bring the sciences into democracy /$fBruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-01289-5 311 $a0-674-01347-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology? -- $t1. Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature -- $t2. How to Bring the Collective Together -- $t3. A New Separation of Powers -- $t4. Skills for the Collective -- $t5. Exploring Common Worlds -- $tConclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology! -- $tSummary of the Argument (for Readers in a Hurry . . .) -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 8$aA 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 place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a "commonsense" division--which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of "mononaturalism" and "multiculturalism," Latour develops the idea of "multinaturalism," a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by "diplomats" who are flexible and open to experimentation. 606 $aPolitical ecology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical ecology. 676 $a320.5/8 686 $aMB 3000$2rvk 700 $aLatour$b Bruno$062052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454885503321 996 $aPolitics of nature$92157408 997 $aUNINA