There's no such thing as society! Bruno Latour's 'our younger brothers', social studies on science and ethical involvement

• Authors: Binczyk E.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The present text discuses selected theses of Bruno Latour's book 'Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory', intended as a systematic introduction to the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT is an extremely philosophically innovative concept, rooted in a tradition, more than thirty years old now, of so-called social studies on science which can be defined as a current within non-classical sociology of knowledge. ANT is presented as an alternative social metatheory, or, a specific methodology. The authoress rejects a hyposthasis of (the) Society, which has been preventing social sciences from an adequate recognition of several mechanisms, particularly those characteristic to a global risk society. The essay highlights that ANT is not yet another version of a social constructivism. For the co-author of this position, it is important that it be empirical as well, and that social sciences appreciate the role of objects, things, referred to as 'our younger brothers'.

Keywords

EN

ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY; CONSTRUCTIVISM; LATOUR BRUNO; SOCIAL STUDIES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 1/2(103/4)
• Pages: 144-156
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Binczyk E.

• E. Binczyk, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Podmurna 74, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02615374