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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... discourse , and Gramscian notions of hegemony ( on the latter point , the works of Raymond Williams have been particularly influential ) . Both concepts em- phasize the degree to which culture is grounded in unequal relations and is ...
... discourse starts to be seen as patterned and disrupted by non - discursive forces " ( Dews 1988 , 110 ) . Dews argues that this shift was related to the events of May 1968 and entailed a recognition that " [ w ] hat sustains or rebels ...
... discourse ) to " fragmentation . " But , again , both Jameson and Hebdige argue that the postmodern subject is not the eternal form of the ontological subject ( as some poststructuralists would have it ) , but itself a specific ...
... discourse of critical theory , with its legitimating aura and access to influence — speaking the white man's lan- guage — and the presently subversive , ultimately more powerful prospect of a distinctively Black theory itself — the ...
... , and / or symptoms of religious fanaticism or cultural ano- mie . In this essay , Guha reads against the grain of colonial discourse to re- code ( semiotically and politically ) the Santal insurrection of INTRODUCTION 19.
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