Tag: Bruno Latour
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From Being to Society: How Philosophy Gave Birth to Sociology
The history of sociology is often presented as the story of a new science born in nineteenth-century Europe to study industrialization, urbanization and capitalism. While this account is not wrong, it misses a deeper intellectual transformation. Sociology did not emerge from nowhere. It emerged from a long philosophical struggle over the nature of reality itself.…
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Habermas and the Modern Public Sphere: Insights for Today
Habermas was, above all, a sociologist, even if much of the press insists on presenting him simply as a philosopher. That is not a minor distinction. His work was not only a contribution to philosophy in the narrow sense; it was also a formidable set of tools for thinking about society, legitimacy, consensus, institutions, and…