Sitrondrommen t1_is4u8nw wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:22 AM

Reply to comment by RoddyDost in Bruno Latour posed a major challenge to modern philosophy’s key assumption - a distinction between the human subject and the world. Philosophy as a field is yet to properly understand the importance of his contribution | Graham Harman. by IAI_Admin

You got into a masters and never heard of Latour?

RoddyDost t1_is57mez wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:02 PM

For the last two years of my study I was reading primarily Heidegger, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and before that I was into social and political ethics. So no, I’ve never heard of him.

Sitrondrommen t1_is598cx wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:17 PM

Still, if you haven't passively heard of Latour by the time you got to your masters and then is prepared to say that he is a nobody which should not contend with what has already been discussed a thousand years ago, I feel that you don't really have the credentials to claim whether or not he is a serious contender, or what it is that has already been discussed in philsophy for a thousands years. Latour is very much a part of an important discussion in philosophy. Just look at his contributions to the philosophy of science for one.