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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... become much more eclectic , and the intellectual context for this volume is a much richer transdisciplinary conversation— which includes feminist theory , a variety of sociologies , literary studies , and the un - disciplined range of ...
... become clear that if we speak of culture as shared , we must now always ask " By whom ? " and " In what ways ? " and " Under what conditions ? " This shift has been manifested in several very visible ways . At the level of theory , the ...
... become a distinct perspective on the culture of power , the culture of resistance , and the politics of cultural production and manipulation . ( See Johnson 1987 ; Brantlinger 1990 ; Grossberg , Nelson , and Treichler 1992. ) Which ...
... become removed from everyday experience , their members coming to see popular behavior as something to be educated , im- proved , disciplined . At the same time , the people on whose behalf such movements claim to speak often find the ...
... become the subjects rather than the objects of knowledge " to be impressed by the capacity of the state to arrange things and bodies , not least society itself , for public display . Foucault argued in Discipline and Punish ( 1977a ) ...
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