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ESSAYS ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF REASON
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| By: |
Paul Rabinow |
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Hardback |
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£38.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691011591 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691011592 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 1996 |
| Series: |
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History |
| Pages: |
210 |
| Description: |
This text discusses how scientific practice can be understood in terms of ethics as well as in terms of power. Topics include how urban planning engineered the transition from city planning to life planning; and how patenting cells required secular courts to invoke medieval notions of the sacred. |
| Synopsis: |
This collection of essays explains the author's 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. This text poses questions about how scientific practice can be understood in terms of ethics as well as in terms of power. The topics covered in the text 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, labour 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. The final essay is concerned with the place of science on modernity, on science as a vocation, and on the differences between the human and natural sciences. |
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US |
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Princeton University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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