Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: life, everyday, practice
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520236998
ISBN-13: 9780520236998

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.

Author: Michel De Certeau
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: plural, culture
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-12-17
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0816627673
ISBN-13: 9780816627677

From the late Michel de Certeau comes an essential engagement with multiculturalism and identity politics. De Certeau stresses that anyone attempting to understand contemporary societies in the West must grasp the already-existing diversity that outflanks elitist conceptions of the "national group". He argues compellingly that old ideas of social unity have no relevance in the diverse societies of today.

Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: loudun, possession
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226100359
ISBN-13: 9780226100357

It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau.Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents wi

Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: history, writing
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1992-04-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0231055757
ISBN-13: 9780231055758

A leading intellectual member of France’s Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In , de Certeau examines the West’s changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself, from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud’s with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankind’s feelings of loss, mourning, and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunning

Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: religion, postmodernism, series, centuries, seventeenth, fable, sixteenth, mystic
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1992-08-15
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0226100367
ISBN-13: 9780226100364

The culmination of de Certeau’s lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar’s transdisciplinary historiography.

Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: literature, series, history, theory, discourse, heterologies
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1986-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719014794
ISBN-13: 9780719014796

Authors:Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard,
Publisher: University of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: writings, political, speech, capture
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0816627681
ISBN-13: 9780816627684

Free speech may be a condition of life, but does that right mean anyone will listen? In THE CAPTURE OF SPEECH, Michel de Certeau (1925-1986) offered a fundamental reassessment of what "free speech" really means. De Certeau emphasizes that all too often free speech is upheld in the abstract while social institutions work in such a way as to deny access to truly effective communication.