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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... discussion . We see ourselves as contributing to an emerging politics of knowledge in this respect , in a time of exciting and contentious intellectual flux . We would like to be seen as both the beneficiaries and the culprits of that ...
... discussion , and redrafting , has been immensely pleasurable and rewarding . To describe accurately our range of indebtedness , innumerable people would have to be acknowledged . Most recently , careful readings by John Bowen and Tom ...
... discussion in contemporary criti- cal theory has now posed a major alternative view : culture as multiple dis- courses , occasionally coming together in large systemic configuration , but more often coexisting within dynamic fields of ...
... discussion has also applied to concepts of the state ; this , too , needs to be recaptured . At present much creative effort is needed to synthesize an understanding of local movements and class culture , on the one hand , and large ...
... discussion of the necessary relation of power to resistance makes clear the immanent cracks in all forms of discursive domination , we also discover that resistance itself can- not be placed outside of power , that there is " no single ...
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