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The Certeau reader / edited by Graham Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Certeau, Michel de.
- Series:
- Blackwell readers
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 2000
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Historiography.
- Ethnology.
- Language and culture.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
- Summary:
- For the first time, a reader brings together a comprehensive selection of key texts by Michel de Certeau. The selection reflects the impressive breadth of the French theorist's work, which ranges from history, anthropology, and philosophy to semiotics, sociology, and psychology.
- An introduction by editor Graham Ward outlines de Certeau's biography and places his work within the cultural context of his time, in terms of both French Catholicism and contemporary intellectual debates. It examines the major preoccupations of the philosopher's writings -- the other, spatiality, colonialism in its various forms, the body, and the relationship between discourse and oppression -- and locates them within the overall development of his thinking. Finally, Ward comments on the current rediscovery of de Certeau and its ramifications for Western thought.
- Contents:
- 2. A Short Introduction to Historiography
- 3. Writings and Histories / Luce Giard
- 4. History: Science and Fiction
- 5. A Short Introduction to Politics / Brian Conley
- 6. A Symbolic Revolution
- 7. The Social Architecture of Knowledge
- 8. A Short Introduction to Sociology / Buchannan
- 9. Walking in the City
- 10. Believing and Making People Believe
- 11. Ethnography
- 12. A Short Introduction / Jeremy Ahearne
- 13. The World of the Vowel
- 14. The Scriptural Economy
- 15. Mystic Speech
- 16. A Short Introduction / Frederick Bauerschmidt
- 17. The Weakness of Believing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-247) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0631212795
- OCLC:
- 41612367
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