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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... never to be con- strued as sufficient reason for total despair . Power exists for Foucault not as some essential thing or elementary force , but , rather , as a relation . If power is therefore everywhere , this is " not because it ...
... never totally suppresses resis- tance , nor ever fully destroys the multiple subjects who resist . Bennett extends the provenance of Foucault's text , convincing us that the process of individuation ( the production of the subject ) is ...
... never quite reached , being end- lessly deferred as the theory of systems was refined . Levi - Strauss on the other hand had no interest in even nodding to the actor . As the debates with Sartre made clear , the whole point of his ...
... never holds , in which the twin processes of containment and dispersal are always in conflict ( though in culturally specific contexts and ways ) . Thus the road to resistance might take us further than we expected , into critical forms ...
... never had the same wor- ries about structure as did Sahlins , grounding his own theory of culture in interpretive semiotics rather than structuralism . Geertz's definition of culture has always been predicated on the notion that culture ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |