The Practice of Everyday Life

The Practice of Everyday Life
ISBN-10
0520271459
ISBN-13
9780520271456
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2011-11
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Michel de Certeau

Description

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.

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