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Bruno Latour - The Normativity of Networks (Paperback)
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Bruno Latour - The Normativity of Networks (Paperback)
Series: Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
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The first extended study of Bruno Latour's legal theory, this book
presents a critical reconstruction of the whole of Latour's oeuvre
to date, from Laboratory Life to An Inquiry into the Modes of
Existence. Based on the powerful insights into normative effects
that actor-network theory makes possible, the book advances a new
theory of legal normativity and the force of law, rethinking
Latour's work on technology, the image, and referential scientific
inscriptions, among others, and placing them within the ambit of
legality. The book also captures and deepens the contrast between
the modern legal institution and the value of law as a mode of
existence, and provides a fulsome theoretical account of legal
veridiction. Throughout, Latour's thought is put into dialogue with
important progenitors and adversaries as well as historical and
contemporary strands of legal and political philosophy. But the
thread of legality is not confined to Latour's reflections on the
making of law; rather, it cuts through the whole of his highly
diverse body of work. The empire of mononaturalism augured by
modern philosophies of science is thoroughly juridical; as such,
the actor-network theory that promises to undo that empire by
freeing the value of the sciences from its epistemological clutches
is unthinkable without the device of the trial and the descriptive
semiotics of normativity that sustain ANT. The democratization of
the sciences and the vibrancy of ecologized politics that become
possible once the bifurcation of nature into essential primary and
disposable secondary qualities is disabled, and once the 'modern
Constitution' is called into doubt, also have important legal
dimensions that have gone largely unexamined. Bruno Latour: The
Normativity of Networks remedies this and other omissions,
evaluating Latour's thought about law while carrying it in striking
new directions. This book introduces legal scholars and students to
the thought of the philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour, whilst
also presenting a critical analysis of his work in and around law.
This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to those
researching in Law, Philosophy, and Sociology.
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