Michel de Certeau Bücher

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 on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a history of man to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history.

Repackage of a classic sociology text in which the author developes the idea of resistance to social and economic pressures.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Historien du domaine religieux, membre de l'École freudienne de Paris, Michel de Certeau a porté un regard incisif sur l'entrecroisement des méthodes qui déterminent les manières d'écrire l'histoire.