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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... working notion of what bases needed to be touched , and added further texts as important spaces gradually became defined . The particular contents changed markedly during this lengthy process of clarification . We began from X PREFACE •
... important in understanding large - scale transformations , much can be learned by attending to " everyday forms of resistance " as well ( see Scott 1985 , 1990 ; Ludtke 1993 ) . But this , in turn , opens the question of the ...
... - cupations , the third term , " power , " is both more specific and more pervasive . And if our understanding of power derives from no single theoretical posi- tion , it is nevertheless linked in important ways with 6 INTRODUCTION.
... important ways with the writings and influ- ence of Michel Foucault ( 1977a , 1977b , 1978 , 1980 , 1988 ) . With all of our inevitable caveats and idiosyncratic readings , we still acknowledge the im- portance of Foucault's insistent ...
... important in this context for sug- gesting ways in which postmodern subjects are culturally and historically constructed in relation to a particular contemporary historical moment , usu- ally described as the culture of late or ...
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