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Bruno Latour
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Bruno Latour (1947–2022) was a French anthropologist, sociologist, professor, and philosopher. Born in Beaune, he worked in contemporary, Western, and continental philosophy, as well as social constructionism. He was employed by Sciences Po, the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers, and Mines ParisTech. Latour held the position of chief scientific officer and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and the British Academy.
He received the Knight of the Legion of Honour, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. His notable works include *Laboratory Life*, *Face à Gaïa*, *De grote regressie*, *Prince and the Wolf : Latour and Harman at the LSE*, and *Les atmosphères de la politique*. Educated at Tours University, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and the University of Burgundy Europe, he was influenced by Étienne Souriau, Michel Serres, and Edgar Morin. Latour died in Paris.
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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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
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
via TMDB
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
- Website
- http://www.bruno-latour.fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Beaune
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- chief scientific officer
- Educated at
- University of Burgundy Europe
- Employer
- Mines ParisTech
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- philosophy of science
- Official website
- www.bruno-latour.fr
- Image
- Bruno Latour in Taiwan P1250394 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Paris
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- Bruno Latour
- date of birth
- 1947-06-22
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- member of
- British Academy
- name in native language
- Bruno Latour
- influenced by
- Edgar Morin
- archives at
- Archives nationales
- described by source
- University of Cologne
- social media followers
- 40217
- date of death
- 2022-10-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
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- birth name
- Bruno Paul Louis Latour
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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