Culture/Power/History by Nicholas Dirks, Geoffrey H. Eley, Sh... - 9780691021027

Culture/Power/HistoryA Reader in Contemporary Social Theory\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Dirks, Geoffrey H. Eley, Sherry B. Ortner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691021027, 978-0691021027\nSynopsis\nThe 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 re.