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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... Society 13 , no . 3 ( 1988 ) : 405-36 . by permission of the University of Chicago Press . Sally Alexander , " Women , Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s : Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History ...
... Society and History 26 , no . 1 ( 1984 ) : 126-66 , with the permis- sion of Cambridge University Press . Marshall Sahlins , " Cosmologies of Capitalism : The Trans - Pacific Sector of ' The World System . " " Reprinted by permission of ...
... society . But as anthropologists have begun to study more complex societies , in which divisions of class , race , and ethnicity are fundamentally constitutive , it has become clear that if we speak of culture as shared , we must now ...
... society itself , for public display . Foucault argued in Discipline and Punish ( 1977a ) that the modern prison was part of the development of a society based not on spectacle but on sur- veillance . The panopticon was seen from the ...
... society ( the object ) , that the institutional mechanisms of confinement are complemented by those of exhibition . But Bennett does not fully engage the difficulties that Haraways's account permits us to see . We might now ask about ...
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