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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... move- ments often themselves become removed from everyday experience , their members coming to see popular behavior as something to be educated , im- proved , disciplined . At the same time , the people on whose behalf such movements ...
... move culture out of the realm of the exotic custom , the festival , the ritual , and the like and into the center of the historical problematic , or , rather , to recognize that the rituals and festivals are sites in which larger and ...
... the museum , display a range of Foucauldian insights , she is also fascinated with the multiplication of historical narratives within institutional histories in ways that move us some distance from any 10 INTRODUCTION .
... move us some distance from any Foucauldian text , though in a slightly different direction from the one urged by Bennett . Hara- way employs a feminist perspective to demonstrate the gendered nature of power in ways that remind us of ...
... move ) or by moving into a strong constructionist posi- tion . But once again , Alcoff points out , the problem of the acting subject immediately rears its head : " And here is precisely the dilemma for feminists : How can we ground a ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |