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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... question and challenge the status quo . Instead , while organized social movements remain enormously important in understanding large - scale transformations , much can be learned by attending to " everyday forms of resistance " as well ...
... question of whether history itself was inherently cultural , and culture , inherently historical . We have already indicated the ways in which the concept of culture is being historicized . The recognition of the " invented " nature of ...
... questions of agency , and of the individual's relation to power , the state , or society are asked in relation to a Foucauldian enterprise ? In order to get some perspec- tive on this question , it will be useful to step back and ...
... question , we will simply shift about between the terms undogmatically and clarify our in- tentions as we go . Perhaps the most extreme position on the constitution of the subject is staked out by Foucault , who fully equates the ...
... question certain forms of poststructuralism for celebrating and transcen- dentalizing this decentered and fragmented subject . As Jameson ( 1984 ) and Hebdige ( this volume ) argue , the death of the subject so central to poststruc ...
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