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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... activity and passivity : " person , " " self , " " actor , " " individual , " " consciousness . " Given that there is no perfectly unambiguous vocabulary for the phenomenon in question , we will simply shift about between the terms ...
... activity , " that is , of the formation of social and political groups , is also radically rewritten when one focuses on the gendered ( male ) nature of these groups and when one considers their particular and changing forms as both ...
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