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Gaia as a Problem of Social Theory

from Part V - Commentaries on Lovelock and Margulis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

By
Bruno Latour
Edited by
Bruce Clarke  and
Sébastien Dutreuil
Bruce Clarke
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
Sébastien Dutreuil
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University
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I am probably the only contributor in this volume who has been attracted to Gaia not as question of natural science but as a solution to a problem of social theory! Trained in philosophy and later in anthropology, I have always been struck by the excessive influence of sociological models in biology. The idea of the Body Politic infects everything it touches.573

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Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis , pp. 404 - 407
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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