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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... course on " Culture , Practice , and Social Change , " as well as to our immediate students in history and anthropology . The other would be to our colleagues in the CSST Faculty Seminar , who have provided a rare and precious context ...
... course , force in turn is only a tiny part of power , so that much of the problematic of power today is a problematic of knowledge making , universe construction , and the social production of feeling and of " reality . " History . One ...
... course , was society itself , an abstraction made material , an object less of dis- cipline than of regulation . Bourgeois national culture was both celebrated and constituted by the civic instruction involved in assembling large crowds ...
... course , but also Weber , Gramsci , and Sartre ) , most of which predate structuralism and continue alongside of and beyond it , insis- tently raising the problem of the historical actor . As discussed in Sherry Ortner's paper ...
... course , also means " representative " ; travel agents or shipping agents act on behalf of their clients , not on their own initiative . Sim- ilarly , as Foucault in particular has emphasized , one of the meanings of " sub- ject " is ...
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