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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... interest on its own terms , both as a coherent whole and in the excellence of its indi- vidual parts . But it also ... interests have become much more eclectic , and the intellectual context for this volume is a much richer ...
... interest in even nodding to the actor . As the debates with Sartre made clear , the whole point of his framework was quite intentionally to get away from a philosophical tradition in which the actor ( or consciousness , or will , or ...
... interest in resistance is concerned with salvaging the subject in the wake of its erosion under poststructuralism . But in the contemporary debates , both meanings of the term " subject " remain at stake . If the cultural construction ...
... interests — insti- tutional , personal , financial , political — that cross the aesthetic boundaries be- tween the theater ... interest in things cultural by media specialists , film reviewers , literary critics , and an ever - widening ...
... interest of Joan Scott ( 1988 ) and other feminists in theories of gender and language , to the pull of reflexive anthropology toward the narrative ordering of the experienced world ( Clifford and Marcus 1986 ; Clifford 1988 ) , to ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |