Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy - Rilegato

Latour, Bruno

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ISBN 10: 0674012895 ISBN 13: 9780674012899

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2004

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This is a translation of a work originally published in French (Editions La Découverte, Paris). Latour (Center for the Study of Innovation, School of Mines, Paris, France) suggests that the champions of political ecology have been too facile in their advocacy. He points out that the conceptual underpinnings of nature and politics have developed over centuries and that change requires a reconceptualization that deals "simultaneously with the sciences, with natures, and with politics, in the plural." This work is the beginning of such a reconceptualization, resting upon a collapsing of false distinctions among nature, science, and society. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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From the book:What is to be done with political ecology? Nothing. What is to be done? Political ecology!All those who have hoped that the politics of nature would bring about a renewal of public life have asked the first question, while noting the stagnation of the so-called "green" movements. They would like very much to know why so promising an endeavor has so often come to naught. Appearances notwithstanding, everyone is bound to answer the second question the same way. We have no choice: politics does not fall neatly on one side of a divide and nature on the other. From the time the term "politics" was invented, every type of politics has been defined by its relation to nature, whose every feature, property, and function depends on the polemical will to limit, reform, establish, short-circuit, or enlighten public life. As a result, we cannot choose whether to engage in it surreptitiously, by distinguishing between questions of nature and questions of politics, or explicitly, by treating those two sets of questions as a single issue that arises for all collectives. While the ecology movements tell us that nature is rapidly invading politics, we shall have to imagine - most often aligning ourselves with these movements but sometimes against them - what a politics finally freed from the sword of Damocles we call nature might be like.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0674012895
• ISBN 13: 9780674012899
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320