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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... Society Elizabeth G. Traube 557 CHAPTER TWENTY Selections from Marxism and Literature Raymond Williams 585 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX 609 613 THIS ANTHOLOGY was originally conceived to announce and introduce our CONTENTS vii.
... Literature , copyright Oxford Uni- versity Press 1977. Reprinted from Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams ( 1977 ) by permission of Oxford University Press . Judith Williamson , " Family , Education , Photography . " Reprinted ...
... literatures , most of which have yet to register the impact of Foucauldian perspectives and are generally formed ... literature on museums and exhibitions on which he draws ( see Kocka and Mitchell 1992 ; Blackbourn 1991 ; on Britain ...
... Literature ( 1977 , excerpted in this volume ) Raymond Williams works within the context of British literary studies and Marxist pol- itics , and seems at one level to be concerned with very different kinds of issues . However , like ...
... literature have challenged the conventions of the high - low categorization and its interpretive appropriation by respective culture industries ( in Ador- no's [ 1972 ] sense ) , anthropologists have had to move over and make room for ...
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