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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... tion of the culture concept derives from its use in creative , and not simply derivative , ways in other fields — in history , philosophy , sociology , and liter- ary criticism , to name only the most obvious cases . The field of ...
... tion on the subjection of the subject as did Foucault . Nonetheless , even for authors committed to recognizing much greater scope for transformative practice , there is now a strong Foucauldian tendency to recognize that the identities ...
... tion of peasant resistance . In other words , power is acknowledged and ana- lyzed , but less because of its totalizing importance than because it has be- come the foil for uncovering the suppressed subject position of the subaltern ...
... tion of categorical assumptions about women's and men's " natures " and " places . " The effects of all this have been not only to demystify the claims made for the universality of the public sphere , but to reveal the hitherto de- nied ...
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