DZCunuck t1_is1s52e wrote on October 12, 2022 at 5:57 PM

Not sure this is specific to Latour. He certainly had his own way of looking at the issue through ANT. He was buddy buddy with a lot of Frankfurt School guys, and reconciling the general and the particular, form and content, individual and society, has been around since Hegel (Philosophy of Right) and definitely had a prominent part in 20th century Marxism. Dialectic of Enlightenment, for example.

zedority t1_is2wa09 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 10:18 PM

I think the misunderstanding that many people have is that Latour wasn't interested in "reconciling" anything. He argued instead that, most of the time, these supposedly massive distinctions between such domains don't actually exist - or that they don't matter, which, in Latour's heavily pragmatist-influenced philosophy, amounts to exactly the same thing.