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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... and Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact Nicholas B. Dirks 483 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy Stephen Greenblatt 504 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies : Two Paradigms Stuart Hall CHAPTER vi • CONTENTS .
... Fact . " Reprinted , with changes , from Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash , eds . , Contesting Power : Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia ( New York : Oxford Uni- versity Press , 1992 ) , with permission of the ...
... fact that all these terms have both an active and a passive implication . Both the notion of the agent and the no- tion of the subject imply a person who is an active initiator of action . Accord- ing to The Concise Oxford Dictionary ...
... fact merely the theoretical reflection and reification of a particular kind of subject , constructed under the regime of postmodernism . In this characterization , postmodern culture , including contemporary theory , is centrally ...
... Fact " ( this volume ) , Nicholas Dirks reviews a range of arguments about the character of resistance and its relationship to both periodic and quotidian forms of cultural practice . The essay confronts us with ethnographic examples of ...
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