The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE

Authors: Latour, B., Harman, G. and Erdélyi, P.

Publisher: Zero Books

Place of Publication: Winchester, England and Washington DC, USA

ISBN: 978-1-84694-422-2

Abstract:

The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman. The occasion for the debate was the impending publication of Harman’s book, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. During the discussion, Latour (the ‘Prince’) compared the professional philosophers who have pursued him over the years to a pack of wolves. The Prince and the Wolf is the story of what happens when the wolf catches up with the prince. Latour and Harman engage in brisk and witty conversation about questions that go to the heart of both metaphysics and research methodology: What are objects? How do they interact? And best how to study them?

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Source: Manual

Preferred by: Peter Erdelyi