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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... means by which all of Paris was converted to spectacle . Nevertheless , Ben- nett ( this volume ) reminds us that state and society did not live by exhibition alone ; the doors of the Museum stay open only because the doors of the ...
... means for self - knowledge ; instead , the sub- ject was seen as dispersed in ( multiple ) texts , discursive formations , fragmen- tary readings , and signifying practices , endless constructing and dislodging the conceit of the self ...
... means " representative " ; travel agents or shipping agents act on behalf of their clients , not on their own initiative . Sim- ilarly , as Foucault in particular has emphasized , one of the meanings of " sub- ject " is precisely a ...
... means , " it may be more important to understand how the text " works , " indeed , how the text itself is a " work , " implicated , like all other products , in modes of production . Further- more , this mode of analysis has been ...
... inclusions and exclusions , comparisons and contrasts — that relied on sexual difference for their meaning " ( 1988 , 60 ) . Overcoming such exclusions means recognizing the indeterminate multi- plicity of INTRODUCTIO 31.
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