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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... function of limitation or repression , of just saying no , power is productive and inciting . Power cannot somehow be stripped away from social relations or discursive forms to expose the essence at the core , and the utopian prospect ...
... functions — with characteristic acuity and eloquence . The general discussion around the trope of resistance is further motivated by a reaction against totalizing formulations about power and domination . Concern about resistance seems ...
... functional needs of the social system and its central values , or from some other overarching principle of order to which we can easily repair . Particular phenomena — events , poli- cies , institutions , ideologies , texts — have ...
... function outside , below and along- side the State apparatuses , on a much more minute and everyday level " ( 1980 , 60 ) ; on the other hand , it is precisely through such individualizing strategies that " the social " or the " social ...
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