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Travels without a donkey

2014; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0952695114551654

ISSN

1461-720X

Autores

C. W. Turner,

Tópico(s)

Critical Realism in Sociology

Resumo

The writings of Bruno Latour have invigorated empirical inquiry in the social sciences and in the process helped to redefine their character. In recent years the philosophy of social science that made this inquiry possible has been deployed to a different end, namely that of rethinking the character of politics. Here I suggest that in the pursuit of this goal, inflated claims are made about that philosophy, and some basic theoretical tools are asked to do a job for which they may not be best equipped.

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