Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Culture/Power/History by Nicholas B. Dirks, Sherry B. Ortner, Geoffrey H. Eley Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucaults "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Organized around these three concepts, Culture/ Power/History brings together both classic and new essays that address Foucaults "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.Representing innovative work from various disciplines and sites of study, from taxidermy to Madonna, the book seeks to affirm the creative possibilities available in a time marked by growing uncertainty about established disciplinary forms of knowledge and by the increasing fluidity of the boundaries between them.The book is introduced by a major synthetic essay by the editors, which calls attention to the most significant issues enlivening theoretical discourse today. The editors seek not only to encourage scholars to reflect anew on the course of social theory, but also to orient newcomers to this area of inquiry. The essays are contributed by Linda Alcoff ("Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism"), Sally Alexander ("Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s"), Tony Bennett ("The Exhibitionary Complex"), Pierre Bourdieu ("Structures, Habitus, Power"), Nicholas B. Dirks ("Ritual and Resistance"), Geoff Eley ("Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures"), Michel Foucault (Two Lectures), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.("Authority, [White] Power and the [Black] Critic"), Stephen Greenblatt ("The Circulation of Social Energy"), Ranajit Guha ("The Prose of Counter-Insurgency"), Stuart Hall ("Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"), Susan Harding ("The Born-Again Telescandals"), Donna Haraway ("Teddy Bear Patriarchy"), Dick Hebdige ("After the Masses"), Susan McClary ("Living to Tell: Madonnas Resurrection of the Fleshly"), Sherry B. Ortner ("Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties"), Marshall Sahlins ("Cosmologies of Capitalism"), Elizabeth G. Traube ("Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society"), Raymond Williams (selections from Marxism and Literature), and Judith Williamson ("Family, Education, Photography"). Notes [This] collection of high quality essays performs a great serive to scholarship. It helps set a direction for the next generations research. There is no comparable reader. -- Thomas W. Laquer, University of California, Berkeley Back Cover "[This] collection of high quality essays performs a great serive to scholarship. It helps set a direction for the next generations research. There is no comparable reader."--Thomas W. Laquer, University of California, Berkeley Author Biography Nicholas B. Dirks is Professor of Anthropology and History, Geoff Eley is Professor of History, and Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies, all at the University of Michigan. Table of Contents PrefacePermissions AcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-193649Ch. 2Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory96Ch. 3The Exhibitionary Complex123Ch. 4Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power155Ch. 5Two Lectures200Ch. 6After the Masses222Ch. 7Family, Education, Photography236Ch. 8Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; Its All Greek to Me247Ch. 9Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History269Ch. 10Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century297Ch. 11The Prose of Counter-Insurgency336Ch. 12Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties372Ch. 13Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System"412Ch. 14Living to Tell: Madonnas Resurrection of the Fleshly459Ch. 15Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact483Ch. 16The Circulation of Social Energy504Ch. 17Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms520Ch. 18The Born-Again Telescandals539Ch. 19Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society557Ch. 20Selections from Marxism and Literature585Notes on the Contributors609Index613 Review "This collection of important essays, with a thoughtful and, in places, moving ... introduction to the current questions and conversations-and dilemmas-of social-cultural history is now the best volume we have on the topic."--International Labor and Working-Class History Promotional [This] collection of high quality essays performs a great serive to scholarship. It helps set a direction for the next generations research. There is no comparable reader. -- Thomas W. Laquer, University of California, Berkeley Long Description 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. Organized around these three concepts, Culture/ Power/History brings together both classic and new essays that address Foucaults "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.Representing innovative work from various disciplines and sites of study, from taxidermy to Madonna, the book seeks to affirm the creative possibilities available in a time marked by growing uncertainty about established disciplinary forms of knowledge and by the increasing fluidity of the boundaries between them.The book is introduced by a major synthetic essay by the editors, which calls attention to the most significant issues enlivening theoretical discourse today. The editors seek not only to encourage scholars to reflect anew on the course of social theory, but also to orient newcomers to this area of inquiry. The essays are contributed by Linda Alcoff ("Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism"), Sally Alexander ("Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s"), Tony Bennett ("The Exhibitionary Complex"), Pierre Bourdieu ("Structures, Habitus, Power"), Nicholas B. Dirks ("Ritual and Resistance"), Geoff Eley ("Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures"), Michel Foucault (Two Lectures), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.("Authority, [White] Power and the [Black] Critic"), Stephen Greenblatt ("The Circulation of Social Energy"), Ranajit Guha ("The Prose of Counter-Insurgency"), Stuart Hall ("Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"), Susan Harding ("The Born-Again Telescandals"), Donna Haraway ("Teddy Bear Patriarchy"), Dick Hebdige ("After the Masses"), Susan McClary ("Living to Tell: Madonnas Resurrection of the Fleshly"), Sherry B. Ortner ("Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties"), Marshall Sahlins ("Cosmologies of Capitalism"), Elizabeth G. Traube ("Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society"), Raymond Williams (selections from Marxism and Literature), and Judith Williamson ("Family, Education, Photography"). Review Quote This collection of important essays, with a thoughtful and, in places, moving . . . introduction to the current questions and conversations-and dilemmas-of social-cultural history is now the best volume we have on the topic. -- International Labor and Working-Class History Details ISBN0691021023 Publisher Princeton University Press Language English ISBN-10 0691021023 ISBN-13 9780691021027 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1993 Imprint Princeton University Press Subtitle A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Edited by Geoffrey H. Eley DEWEY 301.01 Birth 1941 Short Title CULTURE/POWER/HISTORY Author Geoffrey H. Eley Pages 640 Illustrations 18 halftones 1 line illus. 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ISBN-13: 9780691021027
Book Title: Culture/Power/History
Number of Pages: 640 Pages
Publication Name: Culture/Power/History: a Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 964 g
Author: Sherry B. Ortner, Geoff Eley, Nicholas B. Dirks
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Format: Paperback
