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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... concept has come under challenge precisely because of new understandings regarding power and his- tory . Thus , for example , one of the core dimensions of the concept of culture has been the notion that culture is " shared " by all ...
... concept derives from its use in creative , and not simply derivative , ways in other fields — in history , philosophy , sociology , and liter- ary criticism , to name only the most obvious cases . The field of " cultural studies ...
... concept of culture is being historicized . The recognition of the " invented " nature of many tradi- tions , the recognition of cultural constancy and durability as a problem rather than a natural state of affairs , the centrality of ...
... concept of the public sphere , although the persisting nervousness of Habermas before the kind of cultural analysis represented in this reader tends to position such inquiry in a somewhat different intellectual space , as , indeed ...
... concept of " habitus , " Pierre Bourdieu develops this point extensively , arguing that the parameters of personal identity — especially of one's " place " within a system of social differences and inequalities — are structured into the ...
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