The Practice of Everyday Life

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ISBN-10: 0520271459
ISBN-13: 9780520271456
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2011
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 5.88" W, 0.62" H

The Practice of Everyday Life

byMichel De Certeau
Translator: Steven Rendall

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Price: $29.95

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In this incisive book, 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 to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

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"Whether writing about madness and mysticism in the seventeenth century, South American resistance movements in the past and present, or the practice of everyday life in the twentieth century, Certeau developed a distinctive way of interpreting social and personal relations."– "New York Review of Books"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520271459
ISBN-13: 9780520271456
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2011
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 5.88" W, 0.62" H
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