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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... things ; to the constructed- ness of the world and its categories ; to feminism and its challenges to the given ways of knowing ; to theory ; to the transgression of disciplinary bound- aries ; to the critique of all reductionisms ; and ...
... thing , there is a developing view that history itself has variable cultural form — that the shape of events , the pace of time , the notion of change and duration , the very question of what an event is — all of these things are not ...
... things and bodies , not least society itself , for public display . Foucault argued in Discipline and Punish ( 1977a ) that the modern prison was part of the development of a society based not on spectacle but on sur- veillance . The ...
... things ] efficient cause ; a natural force acting on matter ... ; one who does the actual work . " The active implications of " subject " are less prominent , but are thrown into relief when the term is contrasted with " 12 INTRODUCTION •
... things we characterize when we say " culture " and " power . " His work , now seen as the origin of the " new historicism " in literary studies , is in some ways more anthropological than historical ; his sense of cultural poetics owes ...
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