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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... form of historian is getting interested in culture , and some generic form of anthropologist is getting interested in history , although that is certainly true to some extent . Rather there is a very specific convergence here , and ...
... form them- selves against a backdrop , and within the interstices , of this field , and neces- sarily bear its stamp . By ... forms of power . Freedom cannot abolish power ; rather , it redefines power's terrain . Whereas resistance is ...
... forms of 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 ...
... forms of power , and specifically that form of power that " categorizes the individual , marks him [ sic ] by his own individu- ality , attaches him to his own identity , imposes a law of truth on him which he must recognize and which ...
... forms of poststructuralism for celebrating and transcen- dentalizing this decentered and fragmented subject . As Jameson ( 1984 ) and Hebdige ( this volume ) argue , the death of the subject so central to poststruc- turalist theory is ...
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