A metaphysical turn? Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

Throughout "An Inquiry into Modes of Existence", Latour formulates the most convincing and hospitable version of the contemporary metaphysical turn. It satisfies both our conscience by not suturing Being to any positivity whatsoever, and our passion for the variety of empirical sciences, whether natural or social. It forges the strongest allegiance between the demand for systematicity, without which there can be no metaphysics worthy of the name, and the suspicion of unique and homogeneous ontological discourses, however flat they might be. It surmounts both the hypercritical relativism of deconstruction and the rather ostentatious dogmatism in which the new, so-called speculative, metaphysics basks.