Two new books take stock of Bruno Latour's legacy
En attendant Nadeau reviews two works examining the philosopher and sociologist's body of thought, describing an oeuvre both essential and difficult to pin down.
The literary review En attendant Nadeau has published an essay looking at two recent books devoted to Bruno Latour, the French philosopher and sociologist known for his work on science, technology and, later, ecology and the Anthropocene. According to the review, both titles trace his career and his thinking, and together they show how far-reaching his influence has become while underscoring how hard it is to reduce that work to a single thesis or school.
En attendant Nadeau does not name the two books, their authors or their publishers in the material available, so no further detail on their content or scope can be given here. What is clear from the review's framing is that Latour's output, spanning decades and disciplines from anthropology to environmental thought, continues to draw sustained critical attention years after his death, with commentators still working to map its many facets.
Readers who keep Latour on their shelves, whether Nous n'avons jamais été modernes or his later writings on the ecological crisis, may find in this pair of studies an entry point for revisiting an author whose ideas have moved well beyond academic philosophy into wider public debate.
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