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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... Society Elizabeth G. Traube 557 CHAPTER TWENTY Selections from Marxism and Literature Raymond Williams 585 NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX 609 613 THIS ANTHOLOGY was originally conceived to announce and introduce our CONTENTS vii.
... Marxism and Literature , copyright Oxford Uni- versity Press 1977. Reprinted from Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams ( 1977 ) by permission of Oxford University Press . Judith Williamson , " Family , Education , Photography ...
... Marxism and Literature ( 1977 , excerpted in this volume ) Raymond Williams works within the context of British literary studies and Marxist pol- itics , and seems at one level to be concerned with very different kinds of issues ...
... 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 directly from the work ...
... set of specific intellectual biographies that began somewhere in the Marxist tradition . For behind the theoretical discussions is a specific political history — the unresolved agenda of the post - 1968 INTRODUCTION . 25.
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