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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... hand , and large - scale state dynam- ics , on the other . Thus " power " is moving around the social space . No longer an exclusive property of " repressive apparatuses , " it has invaded our sense of the smallest and most intimate of ...
... hand , were designed so that everyone could see . One of the major objects that could be seen , of course , was society itself , an abstraction made material , an object less of dis- cipline than of regulation . Bourgeois national ...
... hand had no interest in even nodding to the actor . As the debates with Sartre made clear , the whole point of his ... hand , there is general agreement that the bourgeois agent and psyche are not the eternal subject ; on the other hand ...
... hand , as noted above , he carries the analysis of power away from the core institutions in the sense of the centralized national state toward the emergence of new individualizing strategies " that function outside , below and along ...
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