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We Have Never Been Modern

Bruno Latour

Translated by Catherine Porter

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$33.00 • £28.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674948396

Publication Date: 10/15/1993

168 pages

6 x 9 inches

8 line illustrations

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Bruno Latour (1947–2022) was Professor Emeritus at Sciences Po Paris. He was the 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy and was awarded the 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize.

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In the Los Angeles Review of Books, read Latour on the “bubbles of unrealism” that led to the 2016 election of Donald Trump

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Bruno Latour Is Winner of the 2021 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy and the 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize

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