Death of philosopher Bruno Latour, figure of ecological thought

The philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour, considered one of the greatest contemporary French intellectuals, died overnight from Saturday to Sunday at the age of 75, his publisher, Les Éditions La Découverte, announced on Sunday.

“Editions La Découverte learned with sadness of the death of Bruno Latour last night in Paris.

All our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones, ”wrote the publishing house in a press release sent to AFP.

Unclassifiable intellectual

Recipient of the Holberg Prize (2013) and the Kyoto Prize (2021) for all of his work, Bruno Latour was an unclassifiable intellectual, concerned with field research.

He was one of the figures of ecological thought.

He is the author (alone or in collaboration) of works such as

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(on Louis Pasteur) and the last,

, written in the midst of the Covid crisis.

One of the first thinkers of ecology

Born June 22, 1947 in Beaune (central-eastern France) into a family of Burgundy wine merchants, Bruno Latour passed an aggregation in philosophy and then trained in anthropology in Côte d'Ivoire.

He then taught in engineering schools.

Author of several essays published in English before being published in France, Bruno Latour has long been interested in questions of management and organization of research and, more generally, in the way in which society produces values ​​and truths. , before turning to the environmental crisis.

He was one of the first to perceive the importance of ecological thought.

In 2021, he told AFP that the crises of climate change and the pandemic had brutally revealed a struggle between "geo-social classes".

“Capitalism has dug its own grave.

Now it's time to fix it."

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