France: death of philosopher Bruno Latour, figure of ecological thought
Anthropologist of the modern world, the French philosopher Bruno Latour, who died on the night of Saturday to Sunday October 9, 2022, at the age of 75, had developed a brilliant reflection on the ecological crisis.
AFP - JOEL SAGET
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One of the most eminent French thinkers is dead.
The philosopher Bruno Latour died on the night of Saturday to Sunday October 9, in Paris, at the age of 75.
He is one of the first to reflect on the political question in connection with ecological issues.
However, it is in the Anglo-Saxon world that Bruno Latour is first praised.
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For the
New York Times,
“
he was the most famous and misunderstood of French philosophers
”.
Bruno Latour, born in 1947 in Beaune, into a family of Burgundy wine merchants, passed his aggregation as a philosopher after training in anthropology in the Ivory Coast.
He is one of the first French intellectuals to perceive the importance of ecological thought.
We have changed worlds, he explained in the 1990s, since we entered the Anthropocene.
Thus turning the page of the Moderns who since the 17th century have maintained that non-humans are foreign to us.
He translates his thought in several works and does not limit himself to pure climatic thought.
Among them:
The factory of law.
An Ethnography of the Council of State
, or
We Have Never Been Modern
.
Crowned with the Holberg Prize in 2013 and the Kyoto Prize in 2021, he is the author that same year of the book
Where am I?
Containment lessons for the use of terrestrials
,
at the Éditions de la Découverte, where he considers that climate change and the pandemic have brutally revealed a struggle between “
geo-social classes
”.
For Bruno Latour, “
capitalism has dug its own grave.
Now it's time to fix it
."
► Also to listen to Bruno Latour on RFI in the program
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