Designs on the Contemporary : Anthropological Tests / Paul Rabinow, Anthony Stavrianakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinow, Paul, Author.

Stavrianakis, Anthony, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis reflect on and experiment with how to give form to anthropological inquiry and its aftermath, with special attention to the ethical formation and ramifications of this mode of engagement. The authors continue their prior explorations of the contemporary in past works: How to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, as well as how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns. They offer a surprising and contrasting pair of case studies of two figures who engaged with contemporary breakdowns: Salman Rushdie and Gerhard Richter. Approaching Richter's artistic struggles with form and technique in the long wake of modernism and Rushdie's struggles to find a narrative form-as well as a form for living-to respond to the Iranian fatwa issued against him, they show how both men formulated different new approaches to anthropology for the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part One. After the Actual

Part Two. Toward the Contemporary

Conclusion. Checking the Contemporary

Terms of Engagement

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226138503

022613850X

OCLC:

876513969