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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... individual proposals for inclusion ( in effect , our personal " top tens " ) , and then discussed intensively the range of purposes that different se- lections could be expected to perform . We began with some working notion of what ...
... individual names would be invidious . One would be to successive cohorts of graduate students from all around the disciplinary map in the annual CSST course on " Culture , Practice , and Social Change , " as well as to our immediate ...
... individuals nor some elementary force transcending society and history . If historical actors some- times embody what appears to be a Nietzschean will to power , it is equally true that any historical actor will also embody a wide range ...
... individual- izing and normalizing technologies of power . Museums and exhibitions , Bennett argues , " sought to allow the people , and en masse rather than indi- vidually , to know rather than be known , to become the subjects rather ...
... individual . What happens when questions of agency , and of the individual's relation to power , the state , or society are asked in relation to a Foucauldian enterprise ? In order to get some perspec- tive on this question , it will be ...
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