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Bruno Latour

French sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1947
Died: 9 Oct 2022
Works: 97

Top works

Laboratory Life
Face à Gaïa
De grote regressie
Prince and the Wolf : Latour and Harman at the LSE
Les atmosphères de la politique

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Film & TV

Acting · Beaune, Côte-d'Or, France

Known for

Time to Land — lui-même2025
Entretien avec Bruno Latour — Himself2022
A Vocabulary for the Future — Narrator2020
Naturales Historiae — Self2019
Transformance2018
Francisco Cisco Pancho — Self2011

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Listeners: 61
Total plays: 134

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Reassembling the Social
· 2005 · cited 15,056x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,771x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,718x
World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,679x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,668x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1947-06-22 ) 22 June 1947, Beaune , Côte-d'Or, France
Died: 9 October 2022 (2022-10-09) (aged 75), Paris, France
Awards: Holberg Prize (2013) , Kyoto Prize (2021)
Education: University of Tours (PhD, 1975)
Doctoral advisor: Claude Bruaire
Era: 21st-century philosophy
Region: Western philosophy
School: Continental philosophy , Social constructionism , Actor–network theory
Institutions: ORSTOM , Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation , Mines ParisTech , Sciences Po , London School of Economics , University of Amsterdam
Notable works: Laboratory Life (1979), Science in Action (1987), We Have Never Been Modern (1991), Politics of Nature (1999)
Notable ideas: Actor–network theory , actant , blackboxing , graphism thesis , mapping controversies , nonmodernism

Key dates

Born: 22 June 1947
Died: 8 October 2022

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Louis
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Beaune
Place of death: Paris
Position held: chief scientific officer
Educated at: University of Burgundy Europe
Employer: Mines ParisTech
Languages spoken: English language

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Bruno Latour (/ləˈtʊər/; French: [latuʁ]; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation of the École des Mines de Paris from 1982 to 2006, he became a professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

Latour is best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern (1991; English translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in Action (1987). He was best known for withdrawing from the subjective/objective division and redeveloping the approach to work in practice. Latour said in 2017 that he is interested in helping to rebuild trust in science and that some of the authority of science needs to be regained. Along with Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich, and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actor–network theory (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel, the generative semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas, and (more recently) the sociology of Émile Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde.