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The Practice of Everyday Life

The Practice of Everyday Life

by Michel De Certeau (Author), Michel De Certeau (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology - to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 260
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06 Dec 2002
ISBN 10: 0520236998
ISBN 13: 9780520236998

Media Reviews
The Practice of Everyday Life...offers ample evidence why we should pay heed to de Certeau and why more of us have not done so. For one, the work all but defies definition. History, sociology, economics, literature and literary criticism, philosophy, and anthropology all come within de Certeau's ken... De Certeau acts very much like his own ordinary hero, manipulating, elaborating, and inventing on the scientific authority that he both denies and requires. -Priscilla P. Clark, Journal of Modern History De Certeau's book is to be praised for setting out some of the practical procedures, in which we are all implicated, that are used to invent what appears to us as our reality, and for finding at least some ways in which the totalitarian nature of our current systems of sense-making can be subverted. -John Shotter, New Ideas in Psychology
Author Bio
The late Michel de Certeau was Directeur d' Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales in Paris and Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.