We are interested in your experience using the site. Yet it was undoubtedly his two books on environmentalism, presented as questions, Où Atterrir? ("Where Should We Land?") and Où Suis-Je? ("Where Am I?") that made the iconoclastic sociologist more widely known to the general public. "He was the first to perceive that what was at stake in political thought lay entirely in environmental questions," recalled the sociologist Bruno Karsenti, as evidenced, as early as 1999, by the publication of Politiques de la nature ( Politics of Nature), written in parallel with Serres' Le Contrat Naturel ( The Natural Contract) in 1990. Before him, with the notable exception of Michel Serres, with whom Latour devised a book of interviews, Eclaircissements ("Clarifications") in 1992, philosophy in France had often kept its distance from the thought and practice of science. He touched on almost every field of knowledge: environmentalism, law, modernity, religion and, of course, science and technology with his inaugural and explosive studies on laboratory life.
He was named "France's most famous and misunderstood philosopher" by The New York Times on October 25, 2018.Ĭelebrated outside of France, receiving the Holberg Prize (2013) and the Kyoto Prize (2021) for his body of work, Latour was for a time misunderstood in France, so disparate did his subjects of research appear, despite their great underlying coherence. Latour, one of his generation's most important French intellectuals, passed away after a long battle with disease. The sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Bruno Latour died on the evening of Saturday, October 8, at the age of 75, Le Monde learned from family sources. Subscribers only Bruno Latour in Paris in January 2022. His ideas on climate change inspired a new generation of intellectuals, artists and activists.īy Nicolas Truong Published on Octoat 12h00, updated at 12h00 on October 12, 2022 The French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist who was praised for his work around the world died on October 8, 2022.
Bruno Latour, French philosopher of 'new climatic regime', dies at 75
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