Pandora’s Hope

Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674653351
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
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 “bête noire of the science worshipers,” gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur’s lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process. Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.

Pandora's Hope

Author: Camille Mariani
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595457878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests the quality of life she seeks. And for her, hope would surely be realized if she could find the right man, preferably a wealthy man. After she meets, and begins to fall in love with, the stereotype of her dream man, Dora makes a devastating discovery. He may be wanted by the law for murdering his wife. However, while she attempts to learn the truth about this man, danger lurks much closer to her new home as a sex offender targets her for his next conquest.

Pandora's Hope

Author: Austin Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

Pandora's Book

Author: Justin Achilli
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
ISBN: 9781588464880
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Included in this collection are vols. distributed as well as published by White Wolf Pub.

Healing Pandora

Author: Gail Thomas
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556438397
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
The story of Pandora is one of the most resonant in Greek mythology. As Healing Pandora shows, it’s also one of the most relevant. Psychologist Gail Thomas has used Pandora in her practice for two decades, often with profound results. Cast in popular accounts as the evil bringer of doom to humanity in divine retaliation for Prometheus stealing fire, Pandora, in Thomas’ view, is a much more complex character, with enormous healing powers as well as her better-known destructive capacity. In this revelatory book, Thomas shows Pandora’s true nature as the dark but all-giving feminine, the archetypal vessel of culture and city with the power to heal our culture. Pandora’s task is to help us transform our overwhelmingly material civilization into a culture of undivided participation and engagement. Part one discusses Pandora’s multifaceted persona as both beautiful evil and divine benefactress. Here Thomas contextualizes Pandora in the cycle of myth and archetype. In part two, the author proposes a series of healing rituals—“Healing Our Fear of Sacrifice,” “Healing Our Dis-Ease,” “Healing the Control of Patriarchy,” and others—inspired by Pandora. Both practical guide and inspiring study, Healing Pandora argues persuasively for manifesting our inner work concretely on the cultural, not just personal, level.

Science in Action

Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674792913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.

Pandora's Hope: Pandora's Descendants Serial 2

Author: Bethany Strobel
Publisher: Bethany Strobel
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Cursed by Zeus to live as a mortal and repeat eighteen-year cycles for centuries, Pandora is finally free... Free to run, that is. Time won't stand still as she races to find her daughter, Hope, before Prometheus gets to her... But now there's a new threat in town, and Pandora can't figure out who else is after her daughter or why. With the help from her three sexy Alpha shifters - Epimetheus' spirit animals - can Pandora find her daughter, help her disappearing followers, and reunite the five so her lover can be whole again, or has the Goddess taken on more than she can handle? Only time will tell. Find out here and one click now.

Politics of Nature

Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039963
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.

Pandora's Lab

Author: Paul A. Offit
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426217986
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Exploring the most fascinating and significant scientific missteps, the author presents seven cautionary lessons to separate good science from bad.

The Pasteurization of France

Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265300
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
What can one man accomplish, even a great man and brilliant scientist? Although every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur, was he alone able to stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to undergo vaccination? Pasteur’s success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession (both military physicians and private practitioners), and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Bruno Latour sets before us as a prime example of science in action. Latour argues that the triumph of the biologist and his methodology must be understood within the particular historical convergence of competing social forces and conflicting interests. Yet Pasteur was not the only scientist working on the relationships of microbes and disease. How was he able to galvanize the other forces to support his own research? Latour shows Pasteur’s efforts to win over the French public—the farmers, industrialists, politicians, and much of the scientific establishment. Instead of reducing science to a given social environment, Latour tries to show the simultaneous building of a society and its scientific facts. The first section of the book, which retells the story of Pasteur, is a vivid description of an approach to science whose theoretical implications go far beyond a particular case study. In the second part of the book, “Irreductions,” Latour sets out his notion of the dynamics of conflict and interaction, of the “relation of forces.” Latour’s method of analysis cuts across and through the boundaries of the established disciplines of sociology, history, and the philosophy of science, to reveal how it is possible not to make the distinction between reason and force. Instead of leading to sociological reductionism, this method leads to an unexpected irreductionism.