The accompaniment : assembling the contemporary /
Rabinow, Paul.
Foucault, Michel,1926-1984.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Think about it -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- Conclusion: The demands of the day : an untimely accompaniment.
Geertz, Clifford.
Hyman, Paul.
Anthropology.
Interdisciplinary research.
Anthropology
Interdisciplinary research