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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... idea for the series and the conception of this reader could not have cohered without the broader cross - disciplinary collaboration that has occurred through the seminars , conferences , and working groups of CSST . In common with ...
... ideas and work the three of us find most exciting . Sherpas , German radical nationalists , and little Indian kingdoms are also ( mainly ) unrepresented . Having said that , we certainly have our own agenda . Each of the essays and ...
... ideas of culture and history are always to be supplemented by each other , and the resultant combinations are always to be supplemented by concerns with power . What follows in this reader is meant to point the way toward further ...
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