Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

by Paul Rabinow

Book Overview

This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering 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. He has recently begun to focus on the core of Western rationality, in particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691011583
• ISBN13: 9780691011585
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"