Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (1947) is a sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Monographs

• with Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts, intro. Jonas Salk, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1979, 272 pp; Princeton University Press, 1986. (English)
  • La Vie de laboratoire. La production des faits scientifiques, Paris: La Découverte, 1988.
  • La vida en el laboratorio. La construcción de los hechos científicos, trans. Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Madrid: Alianza, 1995, 326 pp. (Spanish)
  • A vida de laboratório: a produção dos fatos científicos, trans. Angela Ramalho Vianna, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 1997. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Les microbes: guerre et paix; suivi de: Irréductions, Paris: A.M. Métaillé, 1984; Paris: La Découverte, 2001.
  • The Pasteurization of France, trans. A. Sheridan and J. Law, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988; 1993. (English)
  • I microbi: trattato scientifico-politico, Rome: Editori riuniti, 1991, x+641 pp. (Italian)

• Pasteur: bataille contre les microbes, ills. Annie-Claude Martin, Paris: Nathan, 1985, 70 pp.
  • Pasteur: la lucha contra los microbios, trans. Luis Prensa, Madrid: SM, 1988, 71 pp. (Spanish)
  • Saikin to tatakau pasutoūru, trans. Ruriko Kishida and Michiko Wada, 1989, 123 pp. (Japanese)

• editor, with Jocelyn de Noblet, Les 'Vues' de l'esprit: une introduction à l'anthropologie des sciences et des techniques, Neuilly-sur-Seine: Centre de Recherche sur la Culture Technique, 1985, 280 pp.

• editor, with Michel Callon, Les scientifiques et leurs alliés, Paris: Pandore, 1985, 255 pp.

• Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Harvard University Press, 1987, 274 pp. (English)
  • Wetenschap in actie: wetenschappers en technici in de maatschappij, trans. Barbara de Lange, Amsterdam: Bakker, 1988; repr., Amsterdam: Ooievaar Pockethouse, 1995, 348 pp. (Dutch)
  • La science en action: introduction à la sociologie des sciences, trans. Michel Biezunski, Paris: Gallimard, 1989, 663 pp. Revised by author.
  • Ciencia en acción. Cómo seguir a los científicos e ingenieros a través de la sociedad, trans. Eduardo Aibar, Roberto Méndez and Estela Ponisio, Barcelona: Aragó, 1992, 278 pp. (Spanish)
  • Ciência em ação: como seguirdentistas e engenheiros sociedade afora, trans. Ivone C. Benedetti, Sao Paulo: UNESP, 2000. (Portuguese)

• Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d’anthropologie symétrique, Paris: La Découverte, 1991.
  • We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 1993, 157 pp. (English)
  • Nunca hemos sido modernos: ensayo de antropología moderna, trans. Fernando Conde, Madrid: Debate, 1993, 221 pp. (Spanish)
  • Jamais fomos modernos. Ensaio de antropologia simétrica, trans. Carlos Irineu da Costa, 1994. (Portuguese)
  • Wij zijn nooit modern geweest: pleidooi voor een symmetrische antropologie, trans. Joep van Dijk and Gerard de Vries, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1994, 213 pp; Amsterdam: Boom, 2016, 248 pp. (Dutch)
  • Vi har aldri vært moderne: essay i symmetrisk antropologi, trans. Ragnar Braastad Myklebust, Oslo: Spartacus, 1996, 220 pp. (Norwegian)
  • Artefaktens återkomst: ett möte mellan organisationsteori och tingens sociologi, trans. Elisabeth Wennerholm, Göteborg: Nerenius & Santérus, 1998, 328 pp. (Swedish)
  • Sohasem voltunk modernek: szimmetrikus antropológiai tanulmány, trans. Gecser Ottó, Budapest: Osiris, 1999, 257 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Lam nakun ḥadāthīyīn abadan: baḥth fī al-āntrubūlūjīyā al-tanāẓurīyah, Dimashq: Dar al-Madá, 2000, 256 pp. (Arabic)
  • Nikdy sme neboli moderní, trans. Miroslav Marcelli, Kalligram, 2003, 200 pp. (Slovak)
  • Nikad nismo bilo moderni: ogled iz simetrične antropologije, trans. Olja Petronic, Zagreb: Arkzin & AIIR, 2005; repr. as Nikada nismo bili moderni: esej iz simetrične antropologije, Novi Sad: Mediterran publishing, 2010. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Novogo vremeni ne bylo. Esse po simmetrichnoy antropologii [Нового Времени не было. Эссе по симметричной антропологии], trans. Д. Я. Калугина, 2006. (Russian)
  • Vi har aldrig været moderne: et essay om symmetrisk antropologi, trans. Carsten Sestoft, Copenhagen: Hans Reitzel, 2006, 251 pp. (Danish)
  • Nunca fuimos modernos. Ensayo de antropología simétrica, trans. Víctor Goldstein, Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno, 2007, 221 pp. (Spanish)
  • Biz hiç modern olmadık: simetrik antropoloji denemesi, trans. İnci Uysal, Istanbul: Norgunk Yayınları, 2008, 181 pp. (Turkish)
  • Nigdy nie byliśmy nowocześni: studium z antropologii symetrycznej, trans. Maciej Gdula, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa, 2011, 206 pp. (Polish)
  • 我们从未现代过. 对称性人类学论集, trans. 刘鹏 and 安涅思, 2011. (Chinese)
  • Me pole kunagi olnud modernsed: essee sümmeetrilisest antropoloogiast, trans. Anti Saar, Tallinn: TLÜ Kirjastus, 2014, 279 pp. (Estonian)
  • Nu am fost niciodată moderni: eseu de antropologie simetrică, trans. Bogdan Ghiu, Cluj-Napoca: Tact, 2015, 232 pp. (Romanian)

• La clef de Berlin et autres leçons d'un amateur de sciences, Paris: La Découverte, 1993, 251 pp.
  • De Berlijnse sleutel en andere lessen van een liefhebber van wetenschap en techniek, trans. Rokus Hofstede and Henne van der Kooy, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1997, 289 pp. (Dutch)

• Pasteur: une science, un style, un siecle, Paris: Perrin, 1994, 191 pp.
  • Pasteur: una ciencia, un estilo, un siglo, trans. Stella Mastrángelo, México, DF: Siglo Veintiuno, 1995, 230 pp. (Spanish)

• Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Harvard University Press, 1996, 336 pp.

• Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Harvard University Press, 1999, 336 pp. (English)
  • L'espoir de Pandore: pour une version réaliste de l'activité scientifique, trans. Didier Gille, Paris: La Découverte, 2001, 347 pp.
  • La Esperanza de Pandora: ensayos sobre la realidad de los estudios de la ciencia, trans. Tomás Fernández Aúz, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2001, 382 pp. (Spanish)
  • Pandorino upanje, trans. Polona Glavan, Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2011. (Slovenian)
  • Nadzieja Pandory : eseje o rzeczywistości w studiach nad nauką, trans. Krzysztof Abriszewski, Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2013, 399 pp. (Polish)

• Politiques de la nature: comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie, Paris: La Découverte, 1999.
  • Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 2004, 307 pp. (English)
  • Politicas da natureza. Como fazer ciência na democracia, trans. Carlos Aurélio Mota de Souza, Sao Paulo: EDUSC, 2004. (Portuguese)
  • Polityka natury: nauki wkraczają do demokracji, trans. Agata Czarnacka, intro. Maciej Gdula, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2009, 349 pp. (Polish)
  • Políticas de la naturaleza: por una democracia de las ciencias, trans. Enric Puig, Barcelona: RBA, 2013, 414 pp. (Spanish)

• La fabrique du droit, Paris: La Découverte, 2002.
  • The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat, trans. Marina Brilman and Alain Pottage, Polity Press, 2010, xii+297 pp. (English)

• Jubiler ou les difficultés de l’énonciation religieuse, Les Empêcheurs, 2002. [1]
  • Jubilieren. Über religiöse Rede, trans. Achim Russer, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011. (German)
  • Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2013. [2] (English)

• editor, with Peter Weibel, Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 703 pp. Exh. held at ZKM, May-Sep 2002. (English)
  • Bruno Latour, Iconoclash oder Gibt es eine Welt jenseits des Bilderkrieges?, trans. Gustav Rossler, Berlin: Merve, 2002, 77 pp. Trans. of excerpt. (German)

• Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford University Press, 2005, 301 pp. (English)
  • Changer de société. Refaire de la sociologie, trans. Nicolas Guilhot, Paris: La Découverte, 2006.
  • Reensamblar lo social: una introducción a la teoría del actor-red, trans. Gabriel Zadunaisky, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 2008, 390 pp, IA. (Spanish)
  • En ny sociologi for et nyt samfund: introduktion til aktør-netværk-teori, trans. Claus Bratt Østergaard, Copenhagen: Akademisk, 2008, 360 pp. (Danish)
  • Splataja̜c na nowo to, co społeczne: wprowadzenie do teorii aktora-sieci, intro. Krzysztof Abriszewski, Krakow: Universitas, 2010, 435 pp. (Polish)
  • Tinget återställt: en introduktion till actor-network theory, trans. Linnea Kjellberg, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2015, 344 pp. (Swedish)

• editor, with Peter Weibel, Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, MIT Press, 2005, 1072 pp. Exh. held at ZKM, Mar-Aug 2005. (English)

• with Vincent Antonin Lépinay, L'économie, science des intérêts passionnés. Introduction à l'anthropologie de Gabriel Tarde, Paris: La Découverte, 2009, 134 pp.
  • The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009, 100 pp. (English)
  • La economía, ciencia de los intereses apasionados : introducción a la antropología económica de Gabriel Tarde, trans. Heber Cardoso, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 2009, 124 pp. (Spanish)

• Sur le culte moderne des dieux faitiches, Paris: La Découverte, 2009. [3]
  • On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, trans. Catherine Porter and Heather MacLean, Duke University Press, 2010, x+157 pp. [4] (English)

• with Emilie Hermant, Paris: ville invisible, Paris: Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond & Seuil, 2009.
  • Paris: Invisible City, trans. Liz Carey-Libbrecht, 2006, HTML. [5] (English)
  • Parigi: citta' invisible, trans. Silvia Macchi, 2009. (Italian)
  • Paris: ciudad invisible, trans. Antonio Arellano Hernandez, Mexico, DF: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, 2010. (Spanish)

• Cogitamus: six lettres sur les humanités scientifiques, Paris: La Découverte, 2010, 246 pp.
  • Cogitamus: seis cartas sobre las humanidades científicas, trans. Alcira Bixio, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2012, 196 pp. (Spanish)
  • Cogitamus: sei lettere sull'umanesimo scientifico, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013, 189 pp. (Italian)
  • Cogitamus, trans. Bettina Engels und Nikolaus Gramm, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016, 213 pp. [6] (German)

• editor, with Pasquale Gagliardi and Pedro Memelsorff, Coping with the Past: Creative Perspectives on Conservation and Restoration, Firenze: Olschki, 2010, xvii+206 pp. Conference papers and proceedings. [7] (English)

• Enquête sur les modes d’existence. Une anthropologie des Modernes, Paris: La Découverte, 2012, 504 pp.
  • An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 2013, 520 pp. (English)
  • Investigation sobre los modos de existentia, trans. Alcira Bixio, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2013, 476 pp, ARG. (Spanish)
  • Existenzweisen: Eine Anthropologie der Modernen, trans. Donato Ricci, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014, ARG. (German)
  • Istraživanje o modusima života: jedna antropologija Modernih, Belgrade: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, 2015. (Serbian)

• Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique, Paris: La Découverte, 2015, 398 pp. [8]
  • Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, trans. Catherine Porter, Polity Press, 2017. (English)

• editor, with Christophe Leclerc, Reset Modernity!, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016, 560 pp. Published to accompany an exhibition held 16 Apr-21 Aug 2016 at ZKM_Atrium. Field book. [9] [10] [11] (English)

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Selected works

• Artefaktens återkomst: ett möte mellan organisationsteori och tingens sociologi, ed. B. Czaniawska, trans. Elisabeth Wennerholm, Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus, 1998; Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press, 2012, 329 pp. [12] (Swedish)

• Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem: Výbor z textů 1998-2013, trans. Čestmír Pelikán, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2016, 256 pp. (Czech)

Essays

• "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern", Critical Inquiry 30, Winter 2004. {en}}
  • Elend der Kritik. Vom Krieg um Fakten zu Dingen von Belang, trans. Heinz Jatho, Zürich-Berlin: diaphanes, 2007. (German)

Conversations and interviews

• with Michel Serres, Eclaircissements, Paris: François Bourin, 1990.
  • Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time, trans. Roxanne Lapidus, University of Michigan Press, 1995. (English)
• Geert Lovink, Pit Schultz, "There is no information, only transformation: An Interview with Bruno Latour", 1997. (English)
• with Graham Harman, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, Winchester: Zero Books, 2011, 146 pp. [13] (English)
• Heather Davis, "The Amoderns: Thoughts on an Impossible Project. A Feature Interview with Bruno Latour", Amodern, 2014. (English)

Literature

• Henning Schmidgen, Bruno Latour zur Einführung, Hamburg: Junius, 2011; 2nd ed., exp., 2013, 216 pp. [14]. Reviews: Kammerer (MW 2013), Mayer (BWG 2014). (German)
  • Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography, trans. Gloria Custance, Fordham University Press, 2015. (English)

Links

• http://www.bruno-latour.fr