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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... whole series of assumptions about what culture is and how it works . But if culture is being historicized , history is being — there is really no verb here — anthropologized ? culturized ? in much more profound ways than in earlier ...
... whole point of his framework was quite intentionally to get away from a philosophical tradition in which the actor ( or consciousness , or will , or intention , or subject ) had been endowed with far too much ontologi- cal and ...
... whole . And the aim is to get as close as possible ( both ethnogra- phically and imaginatively ) to the practical ways in which , in enacting these forms , the subject / agent comes to embody them , assume them , take them so utterly ...
... whole societies . But Gates formulates this constructive aspiration of resistance — its transformative and counterhegemonic opportunities as well as its negating and more purely self - protective functions — with characteristic acuity ...
... whole domain of the " noneconomic " to Marxist view : aesthetics , literature , the arts , theories of knowledge , science , education , religion , academic knowledge and the disciplines , intellectual life , popular culture , sexuality ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |