Tribute to Latour

Tribute
The trajectory of a thought
By Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos
English

This article pays homage to Bruno Latour, who recently passed away, by retracing the trajectory of his thought: starting with theology, and coming back to theology, Latour’s thinking traversed the realms of philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. This article focuses on the researcher’s unwavering efforts to offer a full account of the diversity of types of thought, as well as the variety of modes of existence correlated with these types. This description, however, is not devoid of critical evaluation. This article therefore considers Latour’s possible tendency to conflate ideas with reality when he presented his disciplinary divisions as ontological regimes. This article also delves into the rather non-logical sense of his “socio-logics,” as well as examining his promotion of the individuo-centric force of social assemblages.

  • Bruno Latour
  • the Great Divide
  • socio-logic
  • modes of existence
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