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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... 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 respective temporal and national formations , in ways ...
... 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 extremely stimulating exploration of possible connections INTRODUCTION . 9.
... possible connections , see Scobey [ 1992 ] ) . In the exhibitionary complex , the state not only displayed its superior power , it also linked its national past to the evolutionary chain . Anthropology and prehistory were given ...
... possible ( both ethnogra- phically and imaginatively ) to the practical ways in which , in enacting these forms , the subject / agent comes to embody them , assume them , take them so utterly for granted that " it goes without saying ...
... possible but " normal , " for the simple reason that neither " culture " itself nor the re- gimes of power that are imbricated in cultural logics and experiences can ever be wholly consistent or totally determining . " Identities " may ...
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