Michel De Certeau: 5 books

To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and...

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....

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies...

Michel de Certeau, teologo gesuita e filosofo, in questo testo fa una rassegna dei testi della mistica, attraversando la religione, la letteratura, la poesia e la filosofia: dalla notte dei tempi, da cui neanche l’antropologia riesce a trovarne l’origine, passando per Platone e Plotino, la mistica...

“L’operazione Storica” di Michel De Certeau. Un’interrogazione sulla “perturbante” familiarità della storia. Le costrizioni che la scrittura storica e i suoi concetti impongono alla prassi della ricerca: inversione dell’ordine temporale, chiusura testuale, rappresentazione del passato. Rito funerario e agente simbolico, il testo storico apre uno spazio al tempo presente.