Prof. Bruno Latour - 'Once Out of Nature' - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm
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- Professor Bruno Latour delivers the Gifford Lecture series entitled "Facing Gaia. A new enquiry into Natural Religion".
Lecture 1: 'Once Out of Nature' - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm
The set of questions around the two words "natural religion" implies that only the second word is a coded and thus a disputed category, the first one being taken for granted and uncoded. But if it can be shown that the very notion of nature is a theological construct, we might be able to shift the problem somewhat: the question becomes not to save or resurrect "natural religion", but to dispose of it by offering at last a ''secular'' version of nature and of the natural sciences.
Recorded on Monday 18 February 2013 at St Cecilia's Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
These comments and responses show so clearly how much we need public intellectuals but how difficult it is to educate people used to sound bites. It is so easy to reject new ideas that do not repeat familiar perspectives delivered in amusing video-genic ways. Actually learning a new way of thinking is threatening, something we see so clearly in the comments here. Learning takes time and effort - just like working out to get fit. Gaining a new way of thinking is difficult, not something you "deserve" because you tried to understand this lecture. You are the one who benefits from learning. The work is your job, not Latour's. Learning a new perspective is just as time-consuming and rewarding as running a marathon under
What a wonderful lecture and scholar
Monsieur Latour, J'adorerai vous indiquer quelques 'trucs' de prononciation. Ne tombez pas dans ce défaut de tous les intellos francais qui malgré leur intellectuel 'brilliance', pensent qu'ils peuvent parler anglais sans trop se soucier de leur prononciation.
I couldn't understand his english.......a native french speaking man in scotland trying desperately to be an Intlectual...so i turned oin closed caption..OMG closed caption on utub...a waiste. ..what is it with closed caption???? many of the words are just sssssssoooooooooooo wrong??