Dialogues between Bruno Latour and Ulrich Beck: Convergences and divergences
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2012.1.11152Keywords:
social theory, actor network theory (ANT), cosmopolitanism, Ulrich Beck, Bruno LatourAbstract
This paper aims to expose and reflect on the debate between remarkable social scientists of our time: Ulrich Beck and Bruno Latour. However, I still suggest that this debate goes beyond the level of their convergences and divergences in providing indicative of some trends in the humanities. One aspect that I intend to discuss refers to what I see as an “anthropological openness” of the human sciences, which in no way corresponds to his anthropologization. I argue that due the proliferation of crises sociologists and political scientists tend to open their macro-explanatory schemes of social scrutiny and the combination of anthropological methodologies as a mean of finding bases for new parameters that can delimit normative political projects.Downloads
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2012-05-18
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Rotondaro, T. G. (2012). Dialogues between Bruno Latour and Ulrich Beck: Convergences and divergences. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 12(1), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2012.1.11152
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