DESIGNS ON THE CONTEMPORARY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL TESTS

Book ID/图书代码： 13560014B74768

English Summary/英文概要： Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis reflect on and experiment with how to give form to anthropological inquiry and its aftermath, with special attention to the ethical formation and ramifications of this mode of engagement.

The authors continue their prior explorations of the contemporary in past works: How to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, as well as how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns. They offer a surprising and contrasting pair of case studies of two figures who engaged with contemporary breakdowns: Salman Rushdie and Gerhard Richter. Approaching Richter’s artistic struggles with form and technique in the long wake of modernism and Rushdie’s struggles to find a narrative form—as well as a form for living—to respond to the Iranian fatwa issued against him, they show how both men formulated different new approaches to anthropology for the twenty-first century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《當代設計》探究如何設計，以及設計如何找出哲學與人類學的交集。保羅．拉賓諾與安東尼．史塔利亞納齊斯描寫韋伯、傅柯、杜威及其他思想家的概念，反映並實驗如何將形式附於人類學調查及其結果，特別是道德形塑和形塑結果。

作者接續先前關於當代的探究：如何找到當代真理與行為崩潰的概念來源、檢驗並給予形式，如何找到修正這項崩潰的可能性。他們提供一系列令人驚訝、形成鮮明對比的研究案例，關於兩位處理當代崩潰主題的人物：英國作家塞爾曼．魯西迪(Salman Rushdie)以及德國當代藝術大師格哈德．里希特(Gerhard Richter)。本書貼近里希特在現代主義早已覺醒之時，對於形式與手法的藝術性掙扎，也貼近魯西迪努力找尋的一種敘述形式——也是活著的形式——來回應伊朗對他的反對與追殺，作者展現這兩位人物如何為二十一世紀人類學訂出不同新的方法。 (Ramona)

Awards/获奖情况：在這個世界中，概念常放進即時的流行裡，在被其他人換置之前，先被探索一部分，因此嚴肅地關注堆砌探問的基底及隨之而來的責任，令人耳目一新。《當代設計》是一本深刻、重要的人類學哲學作品，它連結拉賓諾的其他作品，創造了一部傑作，一場無可比擬的思想佈局。
——瑪麗蓮．史翠珊(Marilyn Strathern)，劍橋大學

《當代設計》是有所要求的敘述，這種要求是雙重的。一方面，它嘗試公式化意義，找到一種標準，讓人類學家可以合法宣稱是我們當代生活形式的診斷專家——形式以自身不能削減的不確定性高於其他事物。另一方面，它嘗試確認當代生活形式，這對於那些充分研究人類學式田野調查的人是必要的出發點。後者致力於證明自己能利用前者，前者則必須時常重新表述，不只為了反抗，同時也是啟發它所觸及的領域。這本書有著認識論、本體論與倫理論的道德觀：集體探問在這點上十分重要，從人類學的角度去習慣我們已經不再是我們，也不再是我們可能成為的那種人。若人類學家能嚴肅看待這點，人類學就會擁有非常不一樣的紀律，不同於現今——雖然全部一起才能稱為合作。希望他們會嚴肅看待此事。
——詹姆士．D.．佛比恩(James D. Faubion)，萊斯大學

“In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.” (Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge)

“Designs on the Contemporary is the narration of a quest, and the quest is double. In one part, it seeks to formulate the means by which and the criteria according to which the anthropologist can legitimately claim to be a diagnostician of our contemporary forms of life—forms marked, among other things, by their irreducible indeterminacy. In another part, it seeks to identify just those forms of contemporary life for whose adequate diagnosis anthropological fieldwork is a necessary point of departure. The latter aim proves constantly to impose itself on the former, and the former aim constantly to have to be reformulated in the face not merely of the recalcitrance but also the inspiration that its encounters yield. There’s an epistemological, ontological, and ethical moral to this story: that collaborative inquiry is essential to coming anthropologically to terms with who we aren’t any longer, who we are, and who we might be. Were anthropologists to take this seriously, anthropology would be a very different discipline than the discipline it is today—all the calls for collaboration notwithstanding. Let’s hope they take it seriously.” (James D. Faubion, Rice University)

About the Author/作者介绍： 保羅．拉賓諾PAUL RABINOW
加州大學柏克萊分校人類學教授，著作甚多，包括《附屬物與設計人類實踐》(The Accompaniment and Designing Human Practices)。

安東尼．史塔利亞納齊斯ANTHONY STAVRIANAKIS
加州大學柏克萊分校人類學博士，與拉賓諾合著《日間要求》(Demands of the Day)。

Paul Rabinow is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Accompaniment and Designing Human Practices, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Anthony Stavrianakis received his PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Together they are coauthors of Demands of the Day, also published by the University of Chicago Press

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