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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... economy works in asylums , clinics , and prisons are taken up explicitly in Tony Bennett's paper , " The ... economic power . In the massive out- pouring of publications revisiting the social and cultural history of the nine ...
... economic , came under particular attack . The translation and reception of Althusser ( 1969 ) and Poulantzas ( 1973 ) ... economy via " struc- tural causality " and " determination in the last instance , " opened the whole domain of the ...
... economy , from the functional needs of the social system and its central values , or from some other overarching ... economic , political , and moral collapse of com- munist systems ; the catastrophe of the environment and of the ...
... economics , poverty , crime , ed- ucation , and welfare became not only the main objects of governmental activ- ity ... economic process and its necessary effects at the levels of social organization , consciousness , and culture . At ...
... economics and social structure , because it was at this discursive level that the operational collectivity of the ... economy and its social relations . Moreover , Chartist ideology was less the reflection of emerging working - class ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |