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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... ideology for " relatively autonomous " analysis , anchored to the economy via " struc- tural causality " and " determination in the last instance , " opened the whole domain of the " noneconomic " to Marxist view : aesthetics ...
... ideologies , texts — have particular social contexts in the sense of conditions , practices , and sites , which conjoin for an essential part of their meaning . But there is no underlying given structure to which they can necessarily be ...
... ideological distraction from the foun- dational realities of class and social determination , there are no ready - made solutions to the current conundrum . However , one extremely fruitful re- sponse has been to historicize the ...
... ideology was less the reflection of emerging working - class interests , Stedman Jones argues , than an existing body of discourse that itself structured those inter- ests ' main direction ; and Chartist politics revealed less the ...
... Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ( Notes towards an Inves- tigation ) , " in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays , 121–73 . London : New Left Books . Althusser , Louis , and Etienne Balibar . 1970. Reading Capital . London ...
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