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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... material , an object less of dis- cipline than of regulation . Bourgeois national culture was both celebrated and constituted by the civic instruction involved in assembling large crowds for peaceful and uplifting purposes . The ...
... material and cultural life : " The modern versions of practice theory ... appear unique in accepting all three sides of the [ theoretical ] triangle : that society is a system , that the system is powerfully constraining , and yet that ...
... material goods the Europeans had to offer , but who resisted the frames of interpretation ( which of course cast the Euro- peans as superior ) that seemed to go with them . " Resistance " here was not so much a matter of articulating ...
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