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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... body of thought . More Power If two of the three key terms in our series refer as much to disciplinary cores — history and anthropology — as to a constellation of theoretical preoc- cupations , the third term , " power , " is both more ...
... bodies , not least society itself , for public display . Foucault argued in Discipline and Punish ( 1977a ) that the modern prison was part of the development of a society based not on spectacle but on sur- veillance . The panopticon ...
... bodies , selves . The realization of both objectives is to be found in practice . Thus the enter- prise of practice theory , in Bourdieu's hands , is largely a matter of decoding the public cultural forms within which people live their ...
... body of work in social history and anthropol- ogy , and to a lesser extent in sociology and political science , which explores , often movingly and with great imagination , the resilience and vitality of pop- ular culture in the face of ...
... body of this introduction ) , has made the home base ( with its materialist securities ) increasingly hard to find . In fact , for many who have taken this route , the materialist connection in its classical form has to be broken once ...
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