Adam Tooze: Dark matter: Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life
For the late French intellectual in an age of ecological crisis it was crucial to understand ourselves as rooted beings.
Professor Adam Tooze published an article in The New Statesman.
As Bruno Latour confided to Le Monde earlier this year in one of his final interviews, philosophy was his great intellectual love. But across his long and immensely fertile intellectual life, Latour pursued that love by way of practically every other form of knowledge and pursuit – sociology, anthropology, science, history, environmentalism, political theory, the visual arts, theatre and fiction. In this way he was, above all, a philosopher of life in the comprehensive German sense of Lebensphilosophie.