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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... language as all - embracing medium to the determinations which bear upon language ; discourse starts to be seen as patterned and disrupted by non - discursive forces " ( Dews 1988 , 110 ) . Dews argues that this shift was related to the ...
... language of power , intimidat- ing and disabling its audience , positioning its users within privilege , and se- curing the status quo with its authority . Whether from the advocates of " his- tory from below " or " people's history ...
... language , to the pull of reflexive anthropology toward the narrative ordering of the experienced world ( Clifford and Marcus 1986 ; Clifford 1988 ) , to formal analysis of the rhetoric of economics and other apparently nonliterary ...
... language in ordering perceptions of the social world , exercising political effi- cacy in its own right rather than being simply the expression of interests and experience formed elsewhere . Linguistically , " class " defined a ...
... language , as if the book on the last twenty years of innovative social history can now somehow be closed . Discussing the impact of Stedman Jones's work and of the emerging dia- logue between social history and the new forms of ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |