Relearning the Art of Paying Attention: A Conversation

When Kant says that it is better to have a hundred Thalers in your pocket than to have the idea of them, perhaps he was also thinking also about such crashes. [...]to claim speculation for philosophy is to claim it as something whose relation with truth is complicated, non-innocent, with nothing nat...

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Published in:SubStance 2018, Vol.47 (1), p.130-145
Main Authors: Savransky, Martin, Stengers, Isabelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conversation
Humanities
Latour, Bruno
Learning
Philosophers
Philosophy
Posthumanism
Science
Sociology
Truth
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Summary:When Kant says that it is better to have a hundred Thalers in your pocket than to have the idea of them, perhaps he was also thinking also about such crashes. [...]to claim speculation for philosophy is to claim it as something whose relation with truth is complicated, non-innocent, with nothing natural about it. The point was no longer science as such but what I called “practices” in a speculative sense. Many so-called sciences are unable to give up such general references. [...]together with the concept of practice, what I was envisaging was the possibility of different alliances between critics and scientists who would openly refuse the opposition between “objective science” and “subjective opinion.” [...]a mathematician at work is as strange as a shaman at work, and the fact that both are humans tells us nothing about the metamorphic power of the beings they associate with.
ISSN:0049-2426
1527-2095
1527-2095
DOI:10.1353/sub.2018.0009