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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... particular 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 ...
... particular selection of writings represents only one possible cut through the relevant intellectual history of the present . As a selection , it crystallizes from our own particular configuration of inter- ests , and reflects our ...
... particular has made us see ( see esp . Foucault 1978 , 1980 ) , people acting as men and women , parents and chil- dren , teachers and students , doctors and patients , priests and penitents , can no longer be regarded simply as ...
... particular kinds of knowing and under- standing , particular modes of gender and sexual ordering , and so forth . At the same time we seek to highlight efforts to understand the ways in which culturally and historically constituted ...
... particular has emphasized , one of the meanings of " sub- ject " is precisely a person under the dominion of an authority of some sort ; a king's subjects are in a relationship of obedience to him , and laboratory sub- jects may do only ...
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