Der große Leviathan und die Akteur-Netzwerk-Welten

Is Bruno Latour a ‘state thinker’? His intensive examination of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan certainly forms an important linchpin of and a link to understanding his wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work. Asking about Latour’s understanding of the state proves to be a promising approach to addressing core questions in actor-network theory, to Latour’s time-diagnostic critique of modernity and to his search for the prospects of future political collectivity.
The contributions collected here present various approaches to Bruno Latour’s work on problems of statehood and political collectivity, on his analysis of law, on his concept of power and on his political ecology, as well as on how his thinking connects to matters of international relations and the theory of publics.
With contributions by
Lorina Buhr, Anne Dölemeyer, Filipe dos Reis, Graham Harman, Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Leander Scholz, Hagen Schölzel, Jan Christoph Suntrup, Sjoerd van Tuinen und Daniel Witte.