基本説明
Assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is currently conducted, drawing richly on Foucault and many other thinkers including Weber and Dewey.
Full Description
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the "politics and poetics" of anthropology. Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the simple insight that anthropology is composed of claims, whether tacit or explicit, about anthropos and about logos - and the myriad ways in which these two Greek nouns have been, might be, and should be, connected. "Anthropos Today" represents a pathbreaking effort to fill this gap. Paul Rabinow brings together years of distinguished work in this magisterial volume that seeks to reinvigorate the human sciences. Specifically, he assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is currently conducted and how it might change."Anthropos Today" crystallizes Rabinow's previous ethnographic inquiries into the production of truth about life in the world of biotechnology and genome mapping (and his invention of new ways of practicing this pursuit), and his findings on how new practices of life, labor, and language have emerged and been institutionalized. Here, Rabinow steps back from empirical research in order to reflect on the conceptual and ethical resources available today to conduct such inquiries. Drawing richly on Foucault and many other thinkers including Weber and Dewey, Rabinow concludes that a "contingent practice" must be developed that focuses on "events of problematization." Brilliantly synthesizing insights from American, French, and German traditions, he offers a lucid, deeply learned, original discussion of how one might best think about anthropos today.
Contents
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
