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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... Feminism versus Post - Structuralism : The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory Linda Alcoff 96 CHAPTER THREE The Exhibitionary Complex Tony Bennett 123 CHAPTER FOUR Structures , Habitus , Power : Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power ...
... Feminist History Sally Alexander 269 CHAPTER TEN Nations , Publics , and Political Cultures : Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century 297 Geoff Eley CHAPTER ELEVEN The Prose of Counter - Insurgency Ranajit Guha CHAPTER TWELVE 336 ...
... feminist theory , a variety of sociologies , literary studies , and the un - disciplined range of contemporary analysis that goes by the name of cultural studies . Here , our project would probably not be thinkable without a particular ...
... would be to our colleagues in the CSST Faculty Seminar , who have provided a rare and precious context for intellectual exchange and discovery . • PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • Linda Alcoff , " Cultural Feminism PREFACE . xi.
... Feminism versus Post - Structuralism : The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory . " Reprinted from Signs : Journal of Women in Culture and Society 13 , no . 3 ( 1988 ) : 405-36 . by permission of the University of Chicago Press . Sally ...
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