Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its OtherThis is the first book in any language to deal comprehensively with the work of Michel de Certeau, the author of one of the most important, influential, and diverse bodies of scholarship and cultural theory to emerge from Europe during the exciting decades after the late Sixties. It is designed as a guide to draw out, not only the exceptional range, but the overall coherence of his approach. The author focuses on Certeau's major writings: on contemporary French historiography, the writings of early modern mystics and travellers, on Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, Freud, the linguistics of 'utterance, ' and a broad spectrum of work on contemporary cultural practices. In the process, the author seeks to draw out a set of themes that are distinctive to Certeau either in their form or their treatment: the history of early modern and modern 'economies' of writing, reading, and speech; the gap between representation and practice; the relation between 'strategic' social and intellectual programmes and 'tactical' political or poetic activity; the question of religious belief and desire; psycho-analysis and socio-analysis; and the development of what might be called an ethics/aesthetic |
Contents
The Historiographical Operation | 9 |
Interpretation and its Archaeology | 38 |
Voices in the Text | 65 |
Mystics | 95 |
Strategic Operations | 131 |
Turns and Diversions | 157 |
Thought in Motion | 190 |
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Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other Jeremy Ahearne,Michel de Certeau No preview available - 1995 |
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