Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages 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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... British social history , for instance , one such focus has been on religion , philanthropy , moral improvement , and the bases of associational life ; in Germany attention has focused on the supposed difficulties of grounding liberal ...
... denying framework . However , the attractions of poststructuralism for British and American feminists were very similar to those for the French philoso- phers : they allowed an escape from the essentialized subject 14 INTRODUCTION .
... British literary studies and Marxist pol- itics , and seems at one level to be concerned with very different kinds of issues . However , like Bourdieu , Williams is concerned with the degree to which the social and cultural process as a ...
... British domination . Guha , an Indian historian responsible for organizing a collective of younger Indian historians under the banner of " Subaltern Studies , " takes many of his terms and cues from Gramsci . However , he begins his ...
... British cultural studies had little impact in the United States , insulated not only by the localized character of its political concerns but also by the peculiar trajec- tories of the disciplines of sociology , history , anthropology ...
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