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On The Modern Cult Of The Factish Gods

Bruno Latour

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On The Modern Cult Of The Factish Gods

Synopsis

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the anthropologist, philosopher, and influential science studies theorist Bruno Latour advanced in his book We Have Never Been Modern. There he proposed to re-describe the Enlightenment idea of universal scientific truth, arguing that there are no facts separable from their fabrication. In this concise work, Latour delves into the belief in naive belief, the suggestion that fetishes, objects invested with mythical powers, are fabricated, and that facts are not. Mobilizing his work in the anthropology of science, he uses the notion of factishes to explore a way of respecting the objectivity of facts and the power of fetishes without forgetting that both are fabricated. While the fetish-worshipper knows perfectly well that fetishes are man-made, the Modern icon-breaker inevitably erects new icons. Yet Moderns sense no contradiction at the core of their work. Latour pursues his critique of critique, or of the possibility of mediating between subject and object, or the fabricated and the real, through the notion of iconoclash, making productive comparisons between scientific practice and the worship of visual images and of religious icons.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780822348252
Category:
Philosophy of Science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2011-01-29
Series:
Science & Cultural Theory
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Illustrations:
4 illustrations
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
168
Pagination:
168 pages, 4 illustrations
Dimensions (mm):
234x157x10mm
Weight:
254g

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