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Author:
Bruno Latour
Publisher:
Polity
Date:
November 28, 2024
According To Bruno LaTour, belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.
What The Reviewers Say
Expansive and thought provoking.
It’s fascinating to see a thinker like Latour grapple with the political moment and deploy the abstractions of his intellectual program to help clarify it. His book is a success in this regard. It’s even encouraging. Yet, for all its discussion of 'geo-social conflicts,' it cannot quite reckon with the uglier political passions and genuine hatreds that define current political dynamics, and it does not have enough to say about the absence of vital grassroots in today’s democratic landscape. Where are these locals?.
An illuminating and counterintuitive analysis of the present post-truth moment.
Written in a distinctly Francophone intellectual style which is argumentative, provocative and at times short of empirical detail. As such, Down to Earth is rather airy in style and content, and readers might question how calls for ‘Earthliness’ materialise in practice..
