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9. An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers
The admirers of Jean Bodin’s political philosophy might be surprised by
his Demonomanie des sorciers and his forceful attempt to prove the reality
of witchcraft. This opposition between the enlightened modern and the
superstitious premodern makes his thought a prime example to confront
to the theory of modernity proposed by Bruno Latour. This essay attempts
such an exploration, and focuses on narratives of treasure seeking in
Bodin’s text, to understand the notion of nature that they bespeak, a nature
entirely worked through by demons. Looking at Bodin as a premodern
also allows us to complicate Latour’s account by highlighting what the
resurgence of thinking about witchcraft in late sixteenth-century Europe
reveals about a larger argument about Nature, and the ways in which
humans should deal with it.