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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... positions . Con- nected to this point , at the level of empirical work , there has been an explo- sion of studies , both contemporary and historical , on the cultural worlds of different classes , ethnic groups , racial groups , and so ...
... position such inquiry in a somewhat different intellectual space , as , indeed , does the more vehement resistance of Habermas to a Foucauldian notion of power ( see Habermas [ 1962 ] 1989 ; Calhoun 1992 ; Eley , this vol- ume ; for an ...
... position . They do so in two rather different ways . On the one hand , there is general agreement that the bourgeois agent and psyche are not the eternal subject ; on the other hand , there is a clear refusal to argue that the acting ...
... position on the constitution of the subject is staked out by Foucault , who fully equates the constitution of subjects with subjection in the dominative sense . As he says at the beginning of his essay " The Subject and Power , " " My ...
... position con- structed around a depthless subject with no sense of history cannot generate a coherent political actor , one who formulates a comprehensive social critique and an agenda for change . This point is also taken up by Linda ...
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