Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Paul Rabinow

页数:190

出版时间:25 November, 1996

价格:$22.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691011585

图书标签:学术人类学

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.

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Paul Rabinow这个福柯理论家，生科人类学家的论文集，因为是上世纪出版，很多论点现在看已经不再时髦，但其中作为人类学家的学科性反思还是很有趣的

Paul Rabinow这个福柯理论家，生科人类学家的论文集，因为是上世纪出版，很多论点现在看已经不再时髦，但其中作为人类学家的学科性反思还是很有趣的

Paul Rabinow这个福柯理论家，生科人类学家的论文集，因为是上世纪出版，很多论点现在看已经不再时髦，但其中作为人类学家的学科性反思还是很有趣的

Paul Rabinow这个福柯理论家，生科人类学家的论文集，因为是上世纪出版，很多论点现在看已经不再时髦，但其中作为人类学家的学科性反思还是很有趣的

Paul Rabinow这个福柯理论家，生科人类学家的论文集，因为是上世纪出版，很多论点现在看已经不再时髦，但其中作为人类学家的学科性反思还是很有趣的