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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... traditional societies " were thought to have changed extraordinarily slowly , if at all . The virtual absence of ... traditions turn out to have been " invented , " and not very long ago at that ( see Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983 ) . In ...
... tradition in which the actor ( or consciousness , or will , or intention , or subject ) had been endowed with far too much ontologi- cal and historical force and freedom ( Levi - Strauss 1966 ) . Most poststructuralists in France ...
... tradition . " So far , Guha's reasoning seems consistent with a Foucauldian understanding of the power of dis- course , in this case , the truth regime that was institutionalized in the invasive colonial presence in India . However ...
... traditions and their own histories , who accepted ( though always selectively ) the material goods the Europeans had ... traditional ends : " [ D J estiny is not history . Nor is it always tragedy . Anthropologists tell of some ...
... tradition of cultural Marxism , is that Cultural Studies con- tinue to hold out the " promise of a properly materialist theory of culture . " However , drawing theoretical sustenance from Gramsci , Althusser , and Fou- cault and more ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |