Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into DemocracyA 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. |
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Contents
What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology? | 1 |
Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature | 9 |
First Get Out of the Cave | 10 |
Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity? | 18 |
The End of Nature | 25 |
The Pitfall of Social Representations of Nature | 32 |
The Fragile Aid of Comparative Anthropology | 42 |
What Successor for the Bicameral Collective? | 49 |
A New Exteriority | 121 |
Skills for the Collective | 128 |
The Third Nature and the Quarrel between the Two Eco Sciences | 131 |
Contribution of the Professions to the Procedures of the Houses | 136 |
The Work of the Houses | 164 |
The Common Dwelling the 0ikos | 180 |
Exploring Common Worlds | 184 |
Times Two Arrows | 188 |
How to Bring the Collective Together | 53 |
Difficulties in Convoking the Collective | 57 |
Learning to Be Circumspect with Spokespersons | 62 |
Associations of Humans and Nonhumans | 70 |
Reality and Recalcitrance | 77 |
A More or Less Articulated Collective | 82 |
The Return to Civil Peace | 87 |
A New Separation of Powers | 91 |
Some Disadvantages of the Concepts of Fact and Value | 95 |
The Power to Take into Account and the Power to Put in Order | 102 |
The Collectives Two Powers of Representation | 108 |
Verifying That the Essential Guarantees Have Been Maintained | 116 |