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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... institutional setting at the University of Michigan , namely the Pro- gram for the Comparative Study of Social Transformations ( CSST ) , which originally allowed the three of us to come together . Without being an official mouthpiece ...
... institutional arena for studying them ( that is , the state and public organizations in the narrower sense ) onto a variety of settings pre- viously regarded as " nonpolitical , " including the workplace , the street , the deviant or ...
... institutions of the modern era otherwise regarded as rational and liberating , Foucault has both perfected his analytic of power and demon- strated its historicity : the success of modern forms of domination has resided in the dispersal ...
... institutional history of museums and exhibitions . Although Bennett begins his article with explicit acknowledgement of Foucault's method , he also seeks to qualify the terms Foucault proposes for investigating the development of power ...
... institutional complex of the museum , display a range of Foucauldian insights , she is also fascinated with the multiplication of historical narratives within institutional histories in ways that move us some distance from any 10 ...
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