The practice of everyday life /

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 pub...

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Main Author: Certeau, Michel de
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Translation of: Arts de faire, which was volume 1 of L'invention du quotidien.
Physical Description:xxiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229).
ISBN:0520047508
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