we have never been modern

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"We Have Never Been Modern" is a 1991 book by French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour that challenges traditional distinctions between nature and society and critiques the modernist worldview.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
philosophy book
sociology book
argues that modern societies constantly produce hybrids of nature and culture
that modernity never fully achieved its claimed separation of nature and culture
that the separation between nature and society is artificial
author Bruno Latour
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes the idea of a clear break between premodern and modern societies
the strict separation of nature and culture in modern thought
genre philosophy of science
science and technology studies
social theory
hasEnglishTitle We Have Never Been Modern
hasImpactOn debates about modernity and postmodernity
environmental and ecological theory
theory of globalization
hasOriginalTitle We Have Never Been Modern
surface form: Nous n’avons jamais été modernes
influencedField anthropology
environmental humanities
political theory
science and technology studies
sociology of science
mainSubject critique of modernist worldview
hybrids of nature and society
modernism
modernity
nature–culture divide
science
society
notableConcept hybrids
modern constitution
purification and translation
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originalLanguage French
philosophicalTradition constructivism
post-structuralism
relational ontology
proposes critique of the modern constitution
publicationType monograph
publicationYear 1991
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surface form: Laboratory Life

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surface form: Pandora’s Hope

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surface form: Science in Action
theoreticalFramework actor–network theory

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Bruno Latour notableIdea we have never been modern
We Have Never Been Modern originalTitle we have never been modern
this entity surface form: Nous n'avons jamais été modernes