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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... domination , and authority . And here , too , the questioning extends across a wide variety of fields . One of the lasting goods of the intellectual radicalism of the 1960s — which was also the founding moment of contemporary social ...
... domination , culture as a form of power and domination , culture as a medium in which power is both constituted and resisted : it is around this set of issues that certain anthropologists and certain historians ( as well as fellow ...
... domination has resided in the dispersal of power from the state to a wide variety of agencies with " reasonable " claims to autonomy . This is not to say that Foucault ignores the state , only perhaps that he appreciates how misleading ...
... domination and subordination , power and resistance have to be chased . In other words , it is in daily experience , in the settings of ordinary desire and the trials of making it through , that the given power relations are contested ...
... domination . Concern about resistance seems both a way to find the cracks and fissures in the terrible proliferation of power itself ( whether as repressive or terroristic domination or in the less discernible guises of late industrial ...
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