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We Have Never Been Modern

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ISBN 9780674948396

Publication: October 1993

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168 pages

6 x 9 inches

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    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. Crisis
      • 1.1 The Proliferation of Hybrids
      • 1.2 Retying the Gordian Knot
      • 1.3 The Crisis of the Critical Stance
      • 1.4 1989: The Year of Miracles
      • 1.5 What Does It Mean To Be A Modern?
    • 2. Constitution
      • 2.1 The Modern Constitution
      • 2.2 Boyle and His Objects
      • 2.3 Hobbes and His Subjects
      • 2.4 The Mediation of the Laboratory
      • 2.5 The Testimony of Nonhumans
      • 2.6 The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan
      • 2.7 Scientific Representation and Political Representation
      • 2.8 The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern
      • 2.9 The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God
      • 2.10 The Power of the Modern Critique
      • 2.11 The Invincibility of the Moderns
      • 2.12 What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures
      • 2.13 The End of Denunciation
      • 2.14 We Have Never Been Modern
    • 3. Revolution
      • 3.1 The Moderns, Victims of Their Own Success
      • 3.2 What Is a Quasi-Object?
      • 3.3 Philosophies Stretched Over the Yawning Gap
      • 3.4 The End of Ends
      • 3.5 Semiotic Turns
      • 3.6 Who Has Forgotten Being?
      • 3.7 The Beginning of the Past
      • 3.8 The Revolutionary Miracle
      • 3.9 The End of the Passing Past
      • 3.10 Triage and Multiple Times
      • 3.11 A Copernican Counter-revolution
      • 3.12 From Intermediaries to Mediators
      • 3.13 Accusation, Causation
      • 3.14 Variable Ontologies
      • 3.15 Connecting the Four Modern Repertoires
    • 4. Relativism
      • 4.1 How to End the Asymmetry
      • 4.2 The Principle of Symmetry Generalized
      • 4.3 The Import-Export System of the Two Great Divides
      • 4.4 Anthropology Comes Home from the Tropics
      • 4.5 There Are No Cultures
      • 4.6 Sizeable Differences
      • 4.7 Archimedes’ coup d’état
      • 4.8 Absolute Relativisim and Relativist Relativism
      • 4.9 Small Mistakes Concerning the Disenchantment of the World
      • 4.10 Even a Longer Network Remains Local at All Points
      • 4.11 The Leviathan is a Skein of Networks
      • 4.12 A Perverse Taste for the Margins
      • 4.13 Avoid Adding New Crimes to Old
      • 4.14 Transcendences Abound
    • 5. Redistribution
      • 5.1 The Impossible Modernization
      • 5.2 Final Examinations
      • 5.3 Humanism Redistributed
      • 5.4 The Nonmodern Constitution
      • 5.5 The Parliament of Things
    • Bibliography
    • Index