Karsenti, Bruno

Holding on to the World and Holding the World - 2012.


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"Bruno Latour's philosophy can be understood in his last book as An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. Reading it gives us a retrospective look at the whole of the sociological and anthropological work of the author and makes it possible to present it as a philosophy of attention. That attention is sharpened by focusing on all these modes, their ontological differences and the turns they introduce in the field of experience. The main question-what kind of world do we want?-while gradually specifying as a cosmological and ethical one, inflects the practice of social sciences towards a philosophy that would fit the requests of the condition of ""the Moderns."""