: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
First Statement of Responsibility
\ edited by Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley
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First edition
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New York
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: Fordham University Press
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, 2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 317 p.
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Forms of living
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Index
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Contemporary Equipment for Anthropological Problems of Modern Sciences -- Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley -- I. Problems -- An Answer to the Question: "What Is Enlightenment?" -- Immanuel Kant -- Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber -- Reconstruction as Seen Twenty-five Years Later -- John Dewey -- What Is Enlightenment? -- Michel Foucault -- II. Historical Problematizations -- The "Trial" of Theoretical Curiosity -- Hans Blumenberg -- Justifications of Curiosity as Preparation for the Enlightenment -- Hans Blumenberg -- The Question of Normality in the History of Biological Thought -- Georges Canguilhem -- The Living and Its Milieu -- Georges Canguilhem -- III. Ethics: Truth and Subjectivity -- The Hermeneutics of the Subject -- Michel Foucault -- The Courage of the Truth -- Michel Foucault -- Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment -- Paul Rabinow -- Notes -- List of Previous Publications -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences, and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of inquiry"--