Anthropological observation and self-formation

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 98-118

  Rabinow, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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1. We can compare Luhmann's work with Reinhart Koselleck's Futures Past,On the Semantics of Historical Time (trans. Keith Tribe; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985 [orig. 1979]), which analyzes how the past appears in modernity, and Michel Foucault's "What Is Enlightenment?" which queries the way the present appears in different historicities. Foucault shows how these questions lead to a problematization of modes of subjectivation, an issue that centrally concerns Luhmann, although he does not pose the question in these terms.
2. Niklas Luhmann, Observations on Modernity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 [orig. 1992]), 63.
3. Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, translated by Mark Ritter (London: Sage, 1992).
4. Luhmann, Observations on Modernity, 66.
5. Koselleck, Futures Past.
6. Gregory Pence, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
7. Alasdair MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1990).
8. My thanks go to James Faubion for this phrase.
9. Niklas Luhmann, Ecological Communication, trans. John Bednarz Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 93.
10. Paul Rabinow, Anthropos Today, Reflections on Modern Equipment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
11. Niklas Luhmann, "Modernity as Contemporary Society," in Observations on Modernity, 3.
12. Niklas Luhmann,"Contingency as Modern Society's Defining Attribute," in Observations on Modernity, 47.
13. Niklas Luhmann,"The Ecology of Ignorance," in Observations on Modernity, 111.
14. Rabinow,Anthropos Today.
15. G. W. F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, trans. Leo Rauch (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1988), 5.
16. Hegel, Introduction, 3-5.
17. Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Thucydides,A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (New York: The Free Press, 1996). This edition of The Pelopennesian War is a revision of the Richard Crawley translation.
18. James Faubion has been generous in providing help with the Greek text as well as its meaning.
19. Cogan's translation.
20. Marc Cogan, The Human Thing:The Speeches and Principles of Thucydides' History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
21. Cogan, "Introduction," The Human Thing, xv.
22. Crawley's translation, altered.
23. Richard McKeon, Freedom and History: The Semantics of Philosophical Controversies and Ideological Conflict (New York: Noonday Press, 1952), 52.
24. "Logistic history is not universal. It begins with particular data-the forces relevant to a great event, the occurrences of a particular period, the accomplishments and sufferings of a particular group, people, or nation-and with the lines of causal relations or with the probabilities of consequences-the evolution of political forms and political power, the development of military instruments and tactics, the influence of geographic environment, the elaboration and extension of tools and industry, the alteration of economic conditions, moral influences, and social forms and customs."