Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

by Tony Bennett, Linda Alcoff, Sally Alexandeer, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691021023
• ISBN13: 9780691021027
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"