Save Gaia and Redeem Community. Bruno Latour’s Ecotheological Suggestions Cover Image

Ocalić Gaję i zbawić zbiorowość. Ekoteologiczne sugestie Brunona Latoura
Save Gaia and Redeem Community. Bruno Latour’s Ecotheological Suggestions

Author(s): Ewa Bińczyk
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: teoria aktora-sieci; teologia polityczna; polityka natury; zbiorowość; czynniki pozaludzkie; Gaja; Actor-Network Theory; political theology; politics of nature; collective; non-humans; Gaia

Summary/Abstract: The article presents selected ecotheological suggestions of Bruno Latour (French sociologist who created the so-called Actor-Network Theory). Latour’s postsecular model of the authentic religious speech is also described (this kind of speech can be produced by a series of translations that constitute proximity between interlocutors). The text indicates important advantages of such metaphors as „Atlas” and „Gaia”. They could play a crucial role in coping with the political problem of the lack of any united collective reaction towards the threat of global warming.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 137-149
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish