Bakteriologie und Moderne. Studien zur Biopolitik des Unsichtbaren, 1870-1930

The book is made of two parts: the first one is a detailed exploration of the litterature around Pasteur’s rise from obscurity to fame and of the corresponding transformations of microbes from invisibility to prominence; the impossibility of a social explanation of science is then explored in a second part which provides the ontological basis for what has become known as « actor-network theory”.