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In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. Taking up topics that include bioethics, anger and competition among molecular biologists, the lessons of the Drosophila genome, the nature of ethnographic observation in radically new settings, and the moral landscape shared by scientists and anthropologists, Rabinow shows how anthropology remains relevant to contemporary debates. By turning abstract philosophical problems into real-world explorations and offering original insights, Marking Time is a landmark contribution to the continuing re-invention of anthropology and the human sciences.

Philosophical anthropology --- Anthropology --- Contemporary, The. --- Anthropologie --- Contemporanéité --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Contemporary, The --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Contemporanéité --- Contemporaneity --- Time --- Anthropology - Philosophy

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Polymerase chain reaction --- Biotechnology --- Réaction en chaîne de la polymérase --- Biotechnologie --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- History. --- -Chain reaction, Polymerase --- PCR (Biochemistry) --- Polymerization --- DNA polymerases --- -History --- Réaction en chaîne de la polymérase --- Polymerase chain reaction - History. --- Polymères

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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.

Intellectual life --- Science and civilization. --- Social sciences --- Ethnology --- Vie intellectuelle --- Sciences et civilisation --- Sciences sociales --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- History --- Histoire --- Science and civilization --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Civilization and science --- History and science --- Science and history --- Science and society --- Progress --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Althusser, Louis. --- Ambroselli, Claire. --- Aristotle. --- Augustine, Saint. --- Bachelard, Gaston. --- Banham, Reyner. --- Bernard, Claude. --- Bertillon, Alphonse. --- Bourdieu, Pierre. --- Brenner, Sydney. --- Canguilhem, Georges. --- Cantor, Charles. --- Chakrabarty, Ananda. --- Dagognet, François. --- Deleuze, Gilles. --- Descartes, René. --- Eisenberg, Rebecca. --- Elias, Norbert. --- Feyerabend, Paul. --- Flaubert, Gustave. --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg. --- Habermas, Jurgen. --- Halbwachs, Maurice. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Holtzman, Neil. --- Jacob, François. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Kant, Immanuel. --- Krimsky, Sheldon. --- Latour, Bruno. --- Le Corbusier. --- Lyotard, Jean-François. --- Malinowski, Bronislaw. --- Mauss, Marcel. --- Ortner, Sherry. --- Prost, Henri. --- Rimbaud, Arturo. --- Said, Edward. --- Sarich, Vince. --- Sartre, Jean-Paul. --- Schaffer, Simon. --- Sellier, Henri. --- Sorj, Bernardo. --- Strathern, Marilyn. --- Tapper, Marion. --- Washburn, Sherwood. --- Watson, James. --- Weber, Max. --- Williams, Raymond. --- Wilson, Allan. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig. --- Intellectual life - History - 20th century --- Social sciences - History - 20th century --- Ethnology - History - 20th century --- Ethnologie --- 20e siècle --- 20e siècle

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#SBIB:39A77 --- 316.32 <64> --- Islam --- -Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Globale samenlevingsvormen--Marokko --- Morocco --- Zaouia Sidi Lahsene, Morocco --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Zaouia Sidi Lahsene, Morocco. --- -Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- 316.32 <64> Globale samenlevingsvormen--Marokko --- Mohammedanism

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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.

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