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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... Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner 372 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cosmologies of Capitalism : The Trans - Pacific Sector of " The World System " Marshall Sahlins 412 PART THREE : CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY 457 CHAPTER ...
A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner. Culture / Power / History · INTRODUCTION • NICHOLAS B. DIRKS , GEOFF ELEY ,
... theory , the concept of culture is being expanded by Foucauldian notions of discourse , and Gramscian notions of hegemony ( on the latter point , the works of Raymond Williams have been particularly influential ) . Both concepts em ...
... 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 power ...
... theory of systems was refined . Levi - Strauss on the other hand had no interest in even nodding to the actor . As the debates with Sartre made clear , the whole point of his framework was quite intentionally to get away from a ...
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