the Souriau re-release

Good grief, I just opened the file containing the Bruno Latour/Isabelle Stengers introduction to the PUF reprint of Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence. It’s 67 double-spaced pages! But Souriau’s book is so brief that there was plenty of room for a long introduction. And in all future years, if Souriau stays in print, this will become the classic introduction, since it will have been Latour and Stengers who brought Souriau back from the intellectual dead. Will the effort succeed? One can never quite predict.

Anything co-authored by Latour and Stengers, who really seem to click in intellectual conversation, is something I want to read soon. I suppose I should print it and read it during work breaks, though I also really want to start reading my bootleg copy of Meillassoux’s L’inexistence divine.