| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgment ix Introduction Ethos, Logos, and Pathos 1 Hetero-Logoi 4 Equipment 6 Modern Equipment 11 Chapter 1: Midst Anthropology's Problems 13 Labor, Life, Language 14 Inquiry: From Reconstruction to Problematization 15 Cultural Goods 20 Restraint 28 Chapter 2: Method 31 Cultural Singularity 32 Ideal Types 36 Intelligibility 37 Chapter 3: Object 44 Problematization 44 Dispositif: Apparatus 49 Anthropology of the Actual 55 Chapter 4: Mode 57 Modern Historicity 58 Nominalism: Duchamp 61 Deductions: Klee 68 Chapter 5: Form 76 Contemporary Chronicles 77 Philia: Writing Logos, Writing Ethos 79 Formative: Wissensarbeitsforschung 83 Chapter 6: Discontents and Consolations 91 Discontents 92 Science as a Vocation: Truth versus Meaning 96 1917-1989: Enlightenment Betrayed 102 Consolations 105 Chapter 7: Demons and Durcharbeiten 107 Malaise in Motion 108 Demons and Durcharbeiten 119 Conclusion From Progress to Motion 122 Pascal: Enterprises 123 Infinity 128 Exemplary Cases 130 Progress or Motion? 133 Notes 137 Bibliography 149 Index of Selected Names 153 Index of Concepts 155
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