TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rabinow,Paul
TI  - Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
T2  - Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
SN  - 9781400851799
AV  - CB430 
U1  - 306.4/2 20
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Althusser, Louis
KW  - Ambroselli, Claire
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Augustine, Saint
KW  - Bachelard, Gaston
KW  - Banham, Reyner
KW  - Bernard, Claude
KW  - Bertillon, Alphonse
KW  - Bourdieu, Pierre
KW  - Brenner, Sydney
KW  - Canguilhem, Georges
KW  - Cantor, Charles
KW  - Chakrabarty, Ananda
KW  - Dagognet, François
KW  - Deleuze, Gilles
KW  - Descartes, René
KW  - Eisenberg, Rebecca
KW  - Elias, Norbert
KW  - Feyerabend, Paul
KW  - Flaubert, Gustave
KW  - Gadamer, Hans-Georg
KW  - Habermas, Jurgen
KW  - Halbwachs, Maurice
KW  - Heidegger, Martin
KW  - Holtzman, Neil
KW  - Jacob, François
KW  - Jameson, Fredric
KW  - Kant, Immanuel
KW  - Krimsky, Sheldon
KW  - Latour, Bruno
KW  - Le Corbusier
KW  - Lyotard, Jean-François
KW  - Malinowski, Bronislaw
KW  - Mauss, Marcel
KW  - Ortner, Sherry
KW  - Prost, Henri
KW  - Rimbaud, Arturo
KW  - Said, Edward
KW  - Sarich, Vince
KW  - Sartre, Jean-Paul
KW  - Schaffer, Simon
KW  - Sellier, Henri
KW  - Sorj, Bernardo
KW  - Strathern, Marilyn
KW  - Tapper, Marion
KW  - Washburn, Sherwood
KW  - Watson, James
KW  - Weber, Max
KW  - Williams, Raymond
KW  - Wilson, Allan
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER 1 Science as a Practice: Ethos, Logos, Pathos --; CHAPTER 2 Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology --; CHAPTER 3 On the Archaeology of Late Modernity --; CHAPTER 4 Georges Canguilhem: A Vital Rationalist --; CHAPTER 5 Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality --; CHAPTER 6 Galton's Regret: Of Types and Individuals --; CHAPTER 7 Severing the Ties: Fragmentation and Dignity in Late Modernity --; CHAPTER 8 Steps Toward a Third Culture --; CHAPTER 9 American Moderns: On Sciences and Scientists --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces. He has recently begun to focus on the core of Western rationality, in particular the practices of molecular biology as they apply to our understanding of human nature. This book moves in new directions by posing questions about how scientific practice can be understood in terms of ethics as well as in terms of power.The topics include how French socialist urban planning in the 1930s engineered the transition from city planning to life planning; how the discursive and nondiscursive practices of the Human Genome Project and biotechnology have refigured life, labor, and language; and how a debate over patenting cell lines and over the dignity of life required secular courts to invoke medieval notions of the sacred. Building on an ethnographic study of the invention of the polymerase chain reaction--which enables the rapid production of specific sequences of DNA in millions of copies Rabinow, in the final essay, reflects in dialogue with biochemist Tom White on the place of science in modernity, on science as a vocation, and on the differences between the human and natural sciences
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400851799?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400851799
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ER  -