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Paul M. Rabinow Obituary (1944 - 2021)
Born Jun 21, 1944, Paul M. Rabinow attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Paul M. Rabinow.
| Graduation Year | Class of 1961 |
| Date of Birth | Jun 21, 1944 |
| Date of Passing | Apr 06, 2021 |
| About | Paul M. Rabinow was a professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He worked with, and wrote extensively about, the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Rabinow is known for his development of an "anthropology of reason". If anthropology is understood as being composed of anthropos + logos, then anthropology can be taken up as a practice of studying how the mutually productive relations of knowledge, thought, and care are given form within shifting relations of power. More recently, Rabinow developed a distinctive approach to what he called an "anthropology of the contemporary" that moves methodologically beyond modernity as an object of study or as a metric to order all inquiries. For more about Paul's life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rabinow |
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Posted March 11th, 2026
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