Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
ISBN-10
0691021023
ISBN-13
9780691021027
Category
Social Science
Pages
621
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Authors
Geoff Eley, Nicholas B. Dirks

Description

Organized around these three concepts, Culture/ Power/History brings together both classic and new essays that address Foucault's "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.

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