Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour

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The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.

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Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.
Listed as one of Resurgence & Ecologist's 2017 Book of the Year

"Facing Gaia stands as a toolbox for many disciplinesIt harbours crucial insights: we are witnessing a catastrophe in which we are all implicated… Latour argues that it matters what each of us thinks and does. It will be written in clouds, spelt in stone, legible in water."
Australian Book Review
Bruno Latour is one of the world's leading sociologists and anthropologists. He taught at the École des Mines in Paris from 1982 to 2006 and is now Professor at the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po) and Director of the Sciences Po médialab.
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ISBN 13 9780745684345
ISBN 10 0745684343
Title Facing Gaia
Author Bruno Latour
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 2017-06-30
Number of pages 300
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