The accompaniment : assembling the contemporary / Paul Rabinow.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011], ©2011.

238 pages ; 23 cm

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.

Includes Includes bibliographical references and indexes.