Rabinow Anthropos Today

Reflections on Modern Equipment
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2590-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabinow, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgment ix

Introduction Ethos, Logos, and Pathos 1

Hetero-Logoi 4

Equipment 6

Modern Equipment 11

Chapter 1: Midst Anthropology's Problems 13

Labor, Life, Language 14

Inquiry: From Reconstruction to Problematization 15

Cultural Goods 20

Restraint 28

Chapter 2: Method 31

Cultural Singularity 32

Ideal Types 36

Intelligibility 37

Chapter 3: Object 44

Problematization 44

Dispositif: Apparatus 49

Anthropology of the Actual 55

Chapter 4: Mode 57

Modern Historicity 58

Nominalism: Duchamp 61

Deductions: Klee 68

Chapter 5: Form 76

Contemporary Chronicles 77

Philia: Writing Logos, Writing Ethos 79

Formative: Wissensarbeitsforschung 83

Chapter 6: Discontents and Consolations 91

Discontents 92

Science as a Vocation: Truth versus Meaning 96

1917-1989: Enlightenment Betrayed 102

Consolations 105

Chapter 7: Demons and Durcharbeiten 107

Malaise in Motion 108

Demons and Durcharbeiten 119

Conclusion From Progress to Motion 122

Pascal: Enterprises 123

Infinity 128

Exemplary Cases 130

Progress or Motion? 133

Notes 137

Bibliography 149

Index of Selected Names 153

Index of Concepts 155

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory, Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton), and Making PCR, A Story of Biotechnology.