Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

by Bruno Latour

Book Overview

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.

In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "b te noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067465336X
• ISBN13: 9780674653368
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"