(ANSA) - PARIS, 09 OCT - The well-known philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour, considered one of the greatest contemporary French intellectuals, died yesterday evening in Paris, at the age of 75: his publisher, LesEditions La Découverte.
"The publisher La Découverte learned with pain the news of the death of Bruno Latour, which took place last night in Paris. All our thoughts are directed to his family and his friends", the publishing house announced.
Awarded the Holberg Prize (2013) and the Kyoto Prize (2021) for his work as a whole, Latour was one of the greatest figures in ecological thinking.
The philosopher of science, sociologist and anthropologist has written (alone or in collaboration) works such as' The factory of law.
State Council ethnography ',' Laboratory life ',' We have never been modern ',' Imicrobi: war and peace 'and the latest' Where am I? ', Made in the midst of the Covid crisis.
Born on June 22, 1947 in Beaune, to a family of wine merchants from Burgundy, Latour studied philosophy and then trained as an anthropologist in the Ivory Coast.
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