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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... object for study , another has been to invest it precisely with political meanings . Politics was inscribed in the texture of the everyday . The effects of these shifts on the concept of power have been multiple . There is first of all ...
... objects that could be seen , of course , was society itself , an abstraction made material , an object less of dis- cipline than of regulation . Bourgeois national culture was both celebrated and constituted by the civic instruction ...
... objects of " nature " in one particu- lar exhibitionary complex , the American Museum of Natural History . Hara- way shows how the hyperreal myths of the natural were appropriated by , and ordered for , a decidedly gendered bourgeois ...
... object ) , that the institutional mechanisms of confinement are complemented by those of exhibition . But Bennett does not fully engage the difficulties that Haraways's account permits us to see . We might now ask about the costs of ...
... object . " In these con- texts , both agents and subjects are " authors " of their actions and their proj- ects . But " agent , " of course , also means " representative " ; travel agents or shipping agents act on behalf of their ...
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