Anthropology by Annemarie Mol (terminology, method, relevance)

Annotation

In this article, the author refers to the works of the Dutch philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist of science Annemarie Mol to characterize her anthropological project. Studying the philosophy of the leading theorist of the ANT tradition from this perspective helps to concretize the theoretical and methodological foundations of her philosophy and clarify the issue of the strategies of philosophical and anthropological discourse in the “post” era. The article analyzes the uniqueness of Mol’s conceptual apparatus and praxiographic method. The article clarifies the arguments of the new version of ANT obtained by J. Law and Mol in the space of the anthropology of medicine, which allowed them to question Latour’s network logic and compare it with the logic of regions and flows. The article emphasizes the divergence of multiplicity studies with postmodernism and epistemology. It is concluded that this approach is relevant for liberation from subjectivist forms of philosophy and “ideology” in social and humanitarian knowledge. The author considers Mol's views relevant for understanding current sociocultural transformations, for developing relevant practical solutions in the face of modern anthropological processes. For example, her anthropological version of the philosophy of medicine contributes to the formation of a public demand for self-study, the return of self-knowledge to modern medicine. The close connection between medical knowledge and human life is emphasized in the ontological politics of medicine.

Keywords

• anthropology
• practice
• actor-network theory
• empirical philosophy
• praxiography
• ontological politics
• goods
• multiple reality
• body
• dualism of body and consciousness
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