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Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Weber, Foucault, and Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis reflect on and experiment with how to give form to anthropological inquiry and its aftermath, with special attention to the ethical formation and ramifications of this mode of engagement. The authors continue their explorations of the contemporary from past works: how to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, as well as how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns. They offer a surprising and contrasting pair of case studies of two figures who engaged with contemporary breakdowns: Salman Rushdie and Gerhard Richter, showing how both men formulated different new approaches to anthropology for the twenty-first century.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Designs on the Contemporary
• Author: Paul Rabinow, Anthony Stavrianakis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9780226138473
• ISBN: 022613847X
• ID: 04543849
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 230 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2014

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