{"product_id":"anthropos-today-reflections-on-modern-equipment-9780691115665","title":"Anthropos Today  Reflections on Modern Equipment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This volume assembles a set of conceptual tools - \"modern equipment\" - to assess how intellectual work is conducted and how it might change. It offers a discussion of how one might best think about anthropos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an immensely stimulating, riveting work: erudite but highly accessible, wideranging in its curiosity and readings, but coherent. A remarkably mature performance that synthesizes many strands of Rabinow's thought over his career, it speaks articulately to the discontents and predicaments of the present.\"\u003cb\u003e—George Marcus, Rice University, author of \u003ci\u003eEthnography through Thick and Thin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tour de force. Rabinow's book is pathbreaking. It is quite original (and I don't use that word lightly) and promises to bring fundamental changes not only in anthropology in particular but in the human sciences more generally. The writing sparkles with wit, erudition borne with grace, phrases sparingly but uncommonly turned, and, above all, clarity never compromised.\"\u003cb\u003e—E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University, author of \u003ci\u003eCharred Lullabies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment ix  Introduction Ethos, Logos, and Pathos 1  Hetero-Logoi 4  Equipment 6  Modern Equipment 11  Chapter 1: Midst Anthropology's Problems 13  Labor, Life, Language 14  Inquiry: From Reconstruction to Problematization 15  Cultural Goods 20  Restraint 28  Chapter 2: Method 31  Cultural Singularity 32  Ideal Types 36  Intelligibility 37  Chapter 3: Object 44  Problematization 44  Dispositif: Apparatus 49  Anthropology of the Actual 55  Chapter 4: Mode 57  Modern Historicity 58  Nominalism: Duchamp 61  Deductions: Klee 68  Chapter 5: Form 76  Contemporary Chronicles 77  Philia: Writing Logos, Writing Ethos 79  Formative: Wissensarbeitsforschung 83  Chapter 6: Discontents and Consolations 91  Discontents 92  Science as a Vocation: Truth versus Meaning 96  1917-1989: Enlightenment Betrayed 102  Consolations 105  Chapter 7: Demons and Durcharbeiten 107  Malaise in Motion 108  Demons and Durcharbeiten 119  Conclusion From Progress to Motion 122  Pascal: Enterprises 123  Infinity 128  Exemplary Cases 130  Progress or Motion? 133  Notes 137  Bibliography 149  Index of Selected Names 153  Index of Concepts 155","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359105253719,"sku":"9780691115665","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691115665.jpg?v=1754123607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropos-today-reflections-on-modern-equipment-9780691115665","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}