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Encyclopedia > Paul Rabinow

Paul Rabinow is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He recieved his B.A., M.A., and PhD. at the University of Chicago. Professor Rabinow is arguably most famous for his work with Michel Foucault during Foucault's time at Berkeley. His work has consistently centered on modernity as a problem: problem for those seeking to live with its diverse forms, a problem for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. This work has ranged from descendants of a Moroccan saint coping with the changes wrought by colonial and post-colonial regimes, to the wide array of knowledges and power relations entailed in the great assemblage of social planning in France, to my work of the last decade on molecular biology and genomics. He now call this approach an anthropology of reason. Anthropos + logos. Who are the humans at issue and what knowledges constitute them and help them to understand themselves and their environments. His current research centers on developments in post-genomics and molecular diagnostics. It seeks to invent an analytic framework to understand the issues of bio-politics and bio-security. A related research interest is the contemporary moral terrain with special attention to "affect." Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... It has been suggested that UC Mens Chorale be merged into this article or section. ... The University of Chicago is a private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ... Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher who held a chair at the Collège de France, which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. ...



 

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