Biography of an inquiry: On a book about modes of existence

2013/02/28 by Bruno Latour

paper · doi:10.1177/0306312712470751

Abstract

Since the Inquiry on Modes of Existence has been long in coming and has connections with all the successive field works done by the author, the paper tries to retrace the main steps that have led to the project. It shows that it has preceded the work done in actor-network theory and explains the link between philosophy and anthropology through the peculiar notion of ‘mode of existence’.

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