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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. Anthropology, in this case, refers not only to the institutional boundaries of an academic discipline but also to a mode of conceptualizing and addressing a problem: how to analyze and diagnose the modern sciences in their troubled relationships with lived realities. Such an approach addresses the sciences as forms of life and illuminates how the diverse modes of reason, action, and passion that characterize the scientific life continue to shape our existences as late moderns. The essays provided in this book-many of them classics across disciplines-have been arranged genealogically. They offer a particular route through a way of thinking that has come to be crucial in elucidating the contemporary question of science as a formal way of understanding life. The book specifies the historical dynamics by way of which problems of science and modernity become matters of serious reflection, as well as the multiple attempts to provide solutions to those problems. The book's aim is pedagogical. Its hope is that the constellation of texts it brings together will help students and scholars working on sciences become better equipped to think about scientific practices as anthropological problems. Includes essays by: Hans Blumenberg, Georges Canguilhem, John Dewey, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Kant, Paul Rabinow, Max Weber.

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Author:   Anthony Stavrianakis ,  Gaymon Bennett ,  Lyle Fearnley
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780823265947

ISBN 10:   0823265943
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   21 April 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Contemporary Equipment for Anthropological Problems of Modern Sciences Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley I. Problems 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 Index"

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Science, Reason, Modernity offers an introduction to an anthropological engagement with the epistemologies, the ethical possibilities and limitations, and the practical impact of the sciences one that has no real precedent and stands as an important and generative alternative to the analytical frameworks that prevail in contemporary science and technology studies. -James Faubion, Rice University

Science, Reason, Modernity offers an introduction to an anthropological engagement with the epistemologies, the ethical possibilities and limitations, and the practical impact of the sciences that has no real precedent and stands as an important and generative alternative to the analytical frameworks that prevail in contemporary science and technology studies. -James Faubion, Rice University

Author Information

Anthony Stavrianakis is an IFRIS Postdoctoral Fellow, CERMES 3, Research Centre of Health, Medicine, Science and Society, Paris. Gaymon Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology at Arizona State University. He is co-author, with Paul Rabinow, of Designing Human Practices: An Experiment with Synthetic Biology and, with Ted Peters and Karen Lebacqz, of Sacred Cells? Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research. Lyle Fearnley is Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities, Science and Society Cluster at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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