An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

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An Inquiry into Modes of Existence is a philosophical work by Bruno Latour that proposes a pluralistic ontology to account for the diverse ways beings exist and gain legitimacy in modern societies.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses economy as a mode of existence
fiction as a mode of existence
law as a mode of existence
organization as a mode of existence
politics as a mode of existence
religion as a mode of existence
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence self-linksurface differs
surface form: science as a mode of existence

technology as a mode of existence
aimsTo account for diverse ways beings exist
account for how beings gain legitimacy in modern societies
author Bruno Latour
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes reduction of beings to a single mode of existence
standard notion of a unified modernity
developsConcept chains of reference
felicity and infelicity conditions
modes of existence
regimes of enunciation
englishEditionPublicationYear 2013
field anthropology of moderns
metaphysics
philosophy of science
genre philosophy
science and technology studies
hasForm book
digital platform
hasWebsite http://www.modesofexistence.org
influencedBy Alfred North Whitehead
Gabriel Tarde
William James
language English
French
mainSubject actor-network theory
modernity
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence self-linksurface differs
surface form: modes of existence

ontology
pluralism
originalTitle An Inquiry into Modes of Existence self-linksurface differs
surface form: Enquête sur les modes d’existence
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy
pragmatism
proposes pluralistic ontology
publicationYear 2012
publisher Harvard University Press
La Découverte
relatedWork Reassembling the Social
We Have Never Been Modern
structure series of inquiries into different modes

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Bruno Latour notableWork An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
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this entity surface form: modes of existence
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence addresses An Inquiry into Modes of Existence self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: science as a mode of existence