1. Paul M Rabinow was a professor of anthropology at the University of California, director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory, and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center.
Paul Rabinow worked with, and wrote extensively about, the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Paul Rabinow stated that at the time, the neighborhood was a garden city and a socialist and communist 'zone'.
Paul Rabinow studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
Paul Rabinow received a Guggenheim Fellowship, was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris as well as the Ecole Normale Superieure, and was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Iceland.
Paul Rabinow held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation Professional Development Fellowships.
Paul Rabinow was co-founder of the Berkeley Program in French Cultural Studies.
Paul Rabinow was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1998.
Paul Rabinow received the University of Chicago Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award in 2000.
Paul Rabinow is known for his development of an "anthropology of reason".
Paul Rabinow is well known for conceptual work drawing on French, German, and American traditions.
Paul Rabinow was a close interlocutor of Michel Foucault and edited and interpreted Foucault's work as well as ramifying it in new directions.
Paul Rabinow argued that, currently, the dominant knowledge production practices, institutions, and venues for understanding human things in the 21st century are inadequate institutionally and epistemologically.
Paul Rabinow devoted a great deal of energy to the invention of new venues adjacent to the existing university structures, diagnosing the university's disciplinary organization and career patterns as among the major impediments to 21st century thought.
Paul Rabinow called for the creation of venues that are adjacent to, but more flexible than, the university and the existing disciplinary structure.
Paul Rabinow played leading roles in the design of two such organizations, the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center.
In contrast, Paul Rabinow argues that work on concepts opens up and orients inquiry into the concrete features of distinctive cases, whereas the use of ostensibly timeless theory or universal concepts is unlikely to be very helpful in drawing attention to particularities and singularities.
Paul Rabinow held that concepts are tools designed to be used on specified problems and calibrated to the production of pragmatic outcomes, both analytic and ethical.
Contrastingly, Paul Rabinow defined the contemporary as a assemblage of both old and new elements and their interactions and interfaces.
Paul Rabinow describes anthropos as a being that today is burdened with multiple and heterogeneous truths about itself, a being of hetero-logoi.
Paul Rabinow called for the invention of new modes of collaboration where problem-spaces are unstable or emergent and where prior problems and their significance can no longer be taken for granted and can fruitfully be contested.
Paul Rabinow was an investigator in the Practices Thrust of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center.
Paul Rabinow, working with Talia Dan-Cohen, then an undergraduate at Berkeley, took up the challenge of chronicling Celera Diagnostic's efforts to turn the complete sequence of the human genome into tools for diagnosing molecular predispositions for pathological developments in health.
The major themes that Paul Rabinow planned to consistently pursue for the next decades are all incipiently present in these untimely reflections: ethics as form giving, motion, and care.