Tobias Rees is Reid Hoffman Professor at the New School of Social Research, a director of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms.
what if . . . ix
acknowledgments xi
introduction. all of it 1
1. on anthropology (free from ethnos) 7
anthropology and philosophy (differently) 17
philosophy/Philosophy 25
thought/abstract, thought/concrete (the problem with modernism) 28
escaping (the already thought and known) 32
2. "of" the human (after "the human") 34
cataloguing 45
antihumanism 49
a disregard for theory 52
no ontology 55
3. on fieldwork (itself) 70
assemblages (or how to study difference in time?) 84
not history 93
epochal (no more) 95
4. on the actual (rather than the emergent) 97
the new/different (of movement/in terms of movement) 108
why and to what end ends (philosophy, politics, poetry) 110
5. coda (a dictionary of anthropological common places) 113
one last question 118
notes 121
bibliography 151
index 169
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