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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... collective of younger Indian historians under the banner of " Subaltern Studies , " takes many of his terms and cues from Gramsci . However , he begins his essay with the challenge that the texts of historical analysis are always the ...
... collective stake out an important pole of the resistance problematic forcefully and elo- quently , insisting on the necessity for recovering not only instances of resis- tance but also some of the irrepressible cultural forms from which ...
... collective making of distinct cultural practices and inquiry into the relations among these practices , " but his readings constantly traverse between the cultural cat- egories at play , so to speak , on the 22 INTRODUCTION .
... collective experience and from the need to find special explanations for the many instances in which that class consciousness is imperfectly realized , if at all . Indeed , it converts the notion of " interest " itself into a problem ...
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