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We Have Never Been Modern is a 1991 book by Bruno Latour, originally published in French as Nous n'avons jamais été modernes: Essai d'anthropologie symétrique (English translation: 1993).
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Oct 15, 1993 · Latour argues that modernity is a matter of faith and that we have never been modern. He challenges the traditional categories of nature, power and language and proposes a new form of modernism.
For twenty years or so, my friends and I have been studying these strange situations that the intellectual culture in which we live does not know how to categorize.
Jan 1, 2001 · Bruno Latour, Catherine Porter (Translator) 3.91. 2,406 ratings148 reviews. With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors.
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Oct 5, 2023 · Latour argues that modernity is a false construct that neglects the social and environmental connections that people have with their surroundings. He challenges the division between nature and culture, the Enlightenment, and the postmodernist philosophy, and proposes a new way of thinking and behaving.
Oct 1, 2012 · We Have Never Been Modern. Bruno Latour. Harvard University Press, Oct 1, 2012 - Science - 157 pages. With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us...
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Mar 16, 2022 · We have never been modern. by. Latour, Bruno. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Science -- Social aspects, Technology -- Social aspects, Science -- Philosophy, Science -- History. Publisher. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press.