Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... early 1960s . Within anthropology , where culture was in effect the key symbol of the field , the concept has come under challenge precisely because of new understandings regarding power and his- tory . Thus , for example , one of the ...
... early , Derridean and Lacanian forms ) may have seemed strange to many observers precisely because of the dissolution of the subject , and because of the apparent impossibility of constructing an active politics within a subject ...
... early poststructuralist move ) or by moving into a strong constructionist posi- tion . But once again , Alcoff points out , the problem of the acting subject immediately rears its head : " And here is precisely the dilemma for feminists ...
... early years , British cultural studies had little impact in the United States , insulated not only by the localized character of its political concerns but also by the peculiar trajec- tories of the disciplines of sociology , history ...
... early seventies , partly in response to theo- retical shifts in other fields , and partly in response to its own internal dialec- tics . What has unified it since the beginning , across its disparate strands , is its focus on power , on ...
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