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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... Social Energy . " Chapter 1 of Shakespearean Negotiations : The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England ( Berkeley , Calif .: University of California Press , 1988 ) , 1-20 . Reprinted , with changes , by per- mission of the ...
... social history , sociology , and anthropol- ogy to fashion what has become a distinct perspective on the culture of ... social history — has been an expanded and more sophisticated understanding of the role and nature of " the political ...
... social movements , " in which people 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 ...
... social world is ordered as an endlessly shifting field of inequalities , even these desires can only form them- selves against a backdrop , and within the interstices , of this field , and neces- sarily bear its stamp . By extension ...
... social theory . The Subject Of Practice Although at one level Foucault has given us a crucial point of leverage out of midcentury social theory , tranforming both " culture " and " history " with a radically novel and pervasive sense of ...
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