Science, Reason, Modernity by Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Be... - 9780823265930

Science, Reason, ModernityReadings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary\nAuthor(s): Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, Lyle Fearnley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823265930, 978-0823265930\nSynopsis\nScience, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of inquiry. Anthropology, in this case, refers not only to the institutional boundaries of an academic discipline but also to a mode of conceptualizing and addressing a problem: how to analyze and diagnose the modern sciences in their troubled relationships with lived realities. Such an approach addresses the sciences as forms of life and illuminates how the diverse modes of reason, action, and passion tha.