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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... Writing of a Feminist History Sally Alexander 269 CHAPTER TEN Nations , Publics , and Political Cultures : Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century 297 Geoff Eley CHAPTER ELEVEN The Prose of Counter - Insurgency Ranajit Guha CHAPTER ...
... Writing of a Feminist History . " Reprinted from History Workshop 17 ( 1983 ) : 125-49 , by permission of Oxford University Press . Tony Bennett , " The Exhibitionary Complex . " Reprinted from New Formations 4 ( 1988 ) : 73-102 , by ...
... writing makes clear , the usual objections to his work that it suggests an unbearably totalizing sense of power and af- fords no hope for oppositional politics — do not usually take into account the strategic character of his analysis ...
... writing against a Levi - Straussian structu- ralism that assumed certain objective mental structures in human beings , and that also assumed a methodology devoted to discovering those structures ob- jectified in such symbolic ...
... writing in and about the third world , to the interest of Joan Scott ( 1988 ) and other feminists in theories of gender and language , to the pull of reflexive anthropology toward the narrative ordering of the experienced world ...
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