The Accompaniment: Assembling the Contemporary

In This Culmination Of His Search For Anthropological Concepts And Practices Appropriate To The 21st Century, Paul Rabinow Contends That To Make Sense Of The Contemporary, Anthropologists Must Invent New Forms Of Inquiry. Think About It -- 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 -- 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 -- The Demands Of The Day: An Untimely Accompaniment. Paul Rabinow. Includes Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.