On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

Informationen zum Autor Bruno Latour is Professor and Dean for Research at Sciences Po in Paris. His many books include Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory; Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy; Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies; Aramis, Or, The Love of Technology; and We Have Never Been Modern. Klappentext A provocative look at the way science shatters the "fetishes" of magic and religion only to recreate other sorts of fetishes (factishes) in their place. Zusammenfassung Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii 1. On the Cult of the Factish Gods 1 2. What is Iconoclash? Or Is There a World Beyond the Image Wars? 67 3. "Thou Shalt Not Freeze Frame," Or How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate 99 Notes 125 Index 151

Product details

• Authors: Bruno Latour
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2010
• EAN: 9780822348252
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4825-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 237 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Duke University Press; Science and Cultural Theory; Duke University Press; Science and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works