Practice of Everyday Life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking: 02 (Practice of Everday Life)

by Michel De Certeau (Author), Luce Giard (Author), Michel De Certeau (Author), Luce Giard (Author), Pierre Mayol (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1998

  $28.73

  To remain unconsumed by consumer society was the goal of the first volume. Delving even deeper, this volume develops a social history of making do based on microhistories that move from the private sphere of dwelling, cooking and homemaking to the public experience of living in a neighbourhood).

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $12.42

  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.