The Prince and the Wolf

The Prince and the Wolf¦ contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE)¦ between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman.¦ The occasion for the debate was the impending publication of Harman’s book,¦ Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics.¦  During the discussion, Latour (the ‘Prince’) compared the professional philosophers who have pursued him over the years to a pack of wolves. The Prince and the Wolf¦ is the story of what happens when the wolf catches up with the prince. Latour and Harman engage in brisk and witty conversation about questions that go¦ to the heart of both metaphysics and research methodology: What are objects? How do they interact? And best how to study them? '...Harman does for Heidegger what Slavoj Zizek has done for Jacques Lacan: he makes available to an intelligent audience the brilliant insights of a thinker whose tendency to the obscure has been exacerbated by a philosophy industry that has derived much of its influence from a disdain for lucidity.' Mark Fisher, Frieze