The accompaniment : assembling the contemporary / Paul Rabinow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinow, Paul.

Contributor:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geertz, Clifford.

Hyman, Paul.

Anthropology.

Interdisciplinary research.

Anthropology--United States.

Interdisciplinary research--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an extended rumination on what he gained from two of his formative mentors: Michel Foucault and Clifford Geertz. Reflecting on their lives as teachers and thinkers, as well as human beings, he poses questions about their critical limitations, unfulfilled hopes, and the lessons he learned from and with them. This spirit of collaboration animates The Accompaniment, as Rabinow assesses the last ten years of his career, largely spent engaging in a series of intensive experiments in collaborative research and often focused on cutting-edge work in synthetic biology. He candidly details the successes and failures of shifting his teaching practice away from individual projects, placing greater emphasis on participation over observation in research, and designing and using websites as a venue for collaboration. Analyzing these endeavors alongside his efforts to apply an anthropological lens to the natural sciences, Rabinow lays the foundation for an ethically grounded anthropology ready and able to face the challenges of our contemporary world.

Contents:

Think about it

Men of knowledge in search of redemption or salvation

Humanism as nihilism: the bracketing of truth and seriousness in American cultural anthropology

Chicken or glass: between Clifford Geertz and Paul Hyman

Foucault's untimely struggle: toward a form of spirituality

Michel Foucault: a philosopher's morality? toward a bios technika

In search of a contemporary anthropology

Collaboration, concepts, and assemblages

Venues: the labinar and the anthropology of the contemporary research collaboratory

An experiment in discordancy: reflections on familiarity, trust, and confidence in synthetic biology

Why there is no contemporary bioscience, only a modern one

The accompaniment: on the contemporary and the untimely

The demands of the day: an untimely accompaniment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

ISBN:

9786613265128

9780226701714

0226701719

9781283265126

1283265125

OCLC:

749264975