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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... relations and is differentially related to people and groups in different social positions . Con- nected to this point , at the level of empirical work , there has been an explo- sion of studies , both contemporary and historical , on ...
... relations . " But an intriguing line of discussion in contemporary criti- cal theory has now posed a major alternative view : culture as multiple dis- courses , occasionally coming together in large systemic configuration , but more ...
... relations as well as of the largest ; it belongs to the weak as well as to the strong ; and it is constituted precisely within the relations between official and unofficial agents of social control and cultural production . At the same ...
... relations , especially in " modern " historical contexts . Two selections from Foucault appear in this volume , and it will be well to describe at the outset what we understand as Foucault's distinctive contribution . Power is neither ...
... relations or discursive forms to expose the essence at the core , and the utopian prospect of eliding the relations of power in the politics of resistance can only be illusory . But far from thereby neutralizing the importance of power ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |