ABSTRACT
Political philosophy abruptly finds itself in a position where it needs to internalize the environment that it had viewed up to now as another world. Economics, as such, is no longer politics. The combined findings of science studies, political ecology, social science and comparative anthropology come together, for Latour, to raise one single question. Latour then moves to the fourth calling he has chosen to reinterpret, following from scientists, politicians and economists, that of moralists. Their Western integral journey was grounded in the American soul, and had emerged through a newly primal form of politics, combining an affinity with the primeval wilderness with a cosmic consciousness, ready now to assume a newly integral form of natural-political navigation. Democracy can only be conceived if it can freely traverse the dismantled border between science and politics. It may seem strange to ask politicians to make a grounding contribution, right alongside that of laboratory researchers, to the perplexity of the collective.
