Banca de DEFESA: LUÍS EDUARDO TRAJANO LINS

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STUDENT : LUÍS EDUARDO TRAJANO LINS
DATE: 27/02/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (Google Meet)
TITLE:

THREE STUDIES ON MODERNS AND ECOLOGY BY BRUNO LATOUR: The author's development, moderns, the climate question, and the Bolivian constitution (2009)

KEY WORDS:

Ecology; Environmentalism; Environmental Crisis; Gaia; Modern Philosophy; Latour; Nonhumans; Parliament of Things; Modernity; Moderns; Constitution of Bolivia (2009); Cosmopolitics; Natural Contract.

PAGES: 88
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This dissertation is composed of three studies on the ecological critique formulated by Bruno Latour against the so-called moderns—that is, those who, over the last centuries, have upheld a worldview based on the separation between nature and society, between the human and the non-human, between fact and value. The first study aims to reveal, within the author’s intellectual trajectory, the way in which he establishes an essential connection between two fundamental axes of his thought: ecology, understood as a field for reconfiguring relationships among beings and systems, and modernity, taken as an epistemological, political, and ontological paradigm that structures Western thought. It thus seeks to demonstrate how Latour articulates these two poles, showing that ecology is not merely a complement to modernity but rather a profound critique of its most deeply rooted assumptions. The second study, in turn, is devoted to examining the modern worldview itself in detail, investigating how it is constituted, what its operating principles are, and above all how it proves to be directly or indirectly responsible for the worsening of the ecological crisis and the so-called climate disaster. The aim, therefore, is to understand how modern rationality, in seeking to dominate and control nature through science and technology, ended up establishing a relationship of distance and objectification that now proves unsustainable. Finally, the third study presents an interpretive essay: in light of Latour’s perspective on environmental issues, it seeks to understand what advances the Bolivian Constitution, promulgated in 2009, has brought to addressing this problem. Based on this examination, the study evaluates to what extent the Bolivian constitutional text, by recognizing nature as a subject of rights and by incorporating the concept of “Pachamama,” represents a step toward a new ecological politics—a politics that, according to Latour’s perspective, breaks with the modern dichotomy and proposes a more symmetrical, interdependent, and responsible coexistence between humans and non-humans. These three studies thus follow a logic of introduction and contextualization, theoretical and philosophical critique, and finally an illustrative case, always guided by these two axes: the critique of modernity and ecology, as the guiding thread of the investigation.

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