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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... nature of " the political " in social life . This involves a radically deinstitutionalized under- standing of the political process , in which questions of conformity and oppo- sition , of the potentials for stability and cohesion in ...
... natural state of affairs , the centrality of the notion of the " constructed " nature of culture in general — all of these points are elements of a growing recognition that a historical anthropology is not just a narrativized anthropol ...
... nature " in one particu- lar exhibitionary complex , the American Museum of Natural History . Hara- way shows how the hyperreal myths of the natural were appropriated by , and ordered for , a decidedly gendered bourgeois cultural form ...
... nature ; and the declining purchase of straightforward class - political forms of address . In this sense , history has lost its way . The grand ideals that allowed us to read history in a particular direction , as a story of progress ...
... nature of these groups and when one considers their particular and changing forms as both reflecting and ... natures " and " places . " The effects of all this have been not only to demystify the claims made for the universality of the ...
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