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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... Authority , ( White ) Power and the ( Black ) Critic ; It's All Greek to Me Henry Louis Gates , Jr. 247 CHAPTER NINE Women , Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s : Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History ...
... Authority , ( White ) Power and the ( Black ) Critic ; It's All Greek to Me . " Reprinted from Cultural Critique , no . 7 ( Fall 1987 ) : 19-46 . Copy- right 1987 Cultural Critique , Oxford University Press . Used with permission ...
... authority . And here , too , the questioning extends across a wide variety of fields . One of the lasting goods of the intellectual radicalism of the 1960s — which was also the founding moment of contemporary social history — has been ...
... authority of some sort ; a king's subjects are in a relationship of obedience to him , and laboratory sub- jects may do only what they are told to do by the researcher . And there are further terms , all of which carry their own nuances ...
... Authority , ( White ) Power and the ( Black ) Critic ; It's All Greek to Me " ( this volume ) , Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , poses this question acutely within the domain of theory as such , a domain where battles for legitimacy , control ...
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