With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. Acknowledgements
ix
Crisis
1(12)
The Proliferation of Hybrids
1(2)
Retying the Gordian Knot
3(2)
The Crisis of the Critical Stance
5(3)
1989: The Year of Miracles
8(2)
What Does It Mean To Be A Modern?
10(3)
Constitution
13(36)
The Modern Constitution
13(2)
Boyle and His Objects
15(3)
Hobbes and His Subjects
18(2)
The Mediation of the Laboratory
20(2)
The Testimony of Nonhumans
22(2)
The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan
24(3)
Scientific Representation and Political Representation
27(2)
The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern
29(3)
The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God
32(3)
The Power of the Modern Critique
35(2)
The Invincibility of the Moderns
37(2)
What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures
39(4)
The End of Denunciation
43(3)
We Have Never Been Modern
46(3)
Revolution
49(42)
The Moderns, Victims of Their Own Success
49(2)
What Is a Quasi-Object?
51(4)
Philosophies Stretched Over the Yawning Gap
55(4)
The End of Ends
59(3)
Semiotic Turns
62(3)
Who Has Forgotten Being?
65(2)
The Beginning of the Past
67(3)
The Revolutionary Miracle
70(2)
The End of the Passing Past
72(2)
Triage and Multiple Times
74(2)
A Copernican Counter-revolution
76(3)
From Intermediaries to Mediators
79(3)
Accusation, Causation
82(3)
Variable Ontologies
85(3)
Connecting the Four Modern Repertoires
88(3)
Relativism
91(39)
How to End the Asymmetry
91(3)
The Principle of Symmetry Generalized
94(3)
The Import-Export System of the Two Great Divides
97(3)
Anthropology Comes Home from the Tropics
100(3)
There Are No Cultures
103(3)
Sizeable Differences
106(3)
Archimedes' coup d'etat
109(2)
Absolute Relativisim and Relativist Relativism
111(3)
Small Mistakes Concerning the Disenchantment of the World
114(3)
Even a Longer Network Remains Local at All Points
117(3)
The Leviathan is a Skein of Networks
120(2)
A Perverse Taste for the Margins
122(3)
Avoid Adding New Crimes to Old
125(2)
Transcendences Abound
127(3)
Redistribution
130(16)
The Impossible Modernization
130(2)
Final Examinations
132(4)
Humanism Redistributed
136(2)
The Nonmodern Constitution
138(4)
The Parliament of Things
142(4)
Bibliography
146(8)
Index
154
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