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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... critical theory , psychoanalysis , and the larger domain of literary studies— that go relatively unrepresented . But this implies no hostility on our part , and no single volume can hope to cover all the ground , even of the ideas and ...
... critical eye and ear . More generally , we need to acknowledge two enormous debts , where mentioning individual names would be invidious . One would be to successive cohorts of graduate students from all around the disciplinary map in ...
... critical scrutiny the institutions of the modern era otherwise regarded as rational and liberating , Foucault has both perfected his analytic of power and demon- strated its historicity : the success of modern forms of domination has ...
... critically different from doxas and discourses ) can be at once so powerfully defining and shaping of identities and worldviews , and at the same time limited or " open " enough that the actor is never wholly " sub- jected . " Williams ...
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