Nie ma społeczeństwa! "Nasi mniejsi bracia" - społeczne studia nad nauką oraz etyczne zaangażowanie Bruno Latoura
There’s no such thing as society! Bruno Latour’s ‘our younger brothers’, social studies on science and ethical involvement

Summary/Abstract: The present text discuses selected theses of Bruno Latour’s book Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, intended as a systematic introduction to the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT is an extremely philosophically innovative concept, rooted in a tradition, more than thirty years old now, of so-called social studies on science which can be defined as a current within non-classical sociology of knowledge. ANT is presented as an alternative social metatheory, or, a specific methodology. The Author rejects a hyposthasis of (the) Society, which has been preventing social sciences from an adequate recognition of several mechanisms, particularly those characteristic to a global risk society. The essay highlights that ANT is not yet another version of a social constructivism. For the co-author of this position, it is important that it be empirical as well, and that social sciences appreciate the role of objects, things, referred to as ‘our younger brothers’.

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