Michel de Certeau : interpretation and its other
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Michel de Certeau : interpretation and its other
（Key contemporary thinkers）
Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1995
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [218]-221
Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780745613468
Description
Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau's reputation as a thinker has steadily grown both in France and throughout the English-speaking world. His work is innovative and wide-ranging, cutting across issues in historiography, literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, theology, philosophy and psychoanalysis. This book represents a study of Certeau's thought. It is organized around the central theme of interpretation and alterity, which Ahearne uses to illuminate Certeau's work as a whole. The author also examines: Certeau's theory and practice of historiography; his reflection of the changing historical relations between writing, reading and orality; and his distinction between the "strategic" programmes of the politically powerful and the "tactics" of the relatively powerless. The book places Certeau's work in its general intellectual context, relating it to the views of important contemporary thinkers, such as Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, and demonstrating the decisive importance to Certeau's thought of the writings of the early-modern mystics and travellers.
This book constitutes a critical introduction to Certeau's work, while also providing a comprehensive and nuanced reading for those already familiar with his thought.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Implications: the historiographical operation
- interpretation and its archaeology. Part 2 Fables: voices in the text
- mystics. Part 3 Strategies and tactics: strategic operations
- turns and diversions.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745613475
Description
Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau's reputation as a thinker has steadily grown both in France and throughout the English-speaking world. His work is extraordinarily innovative and wide-ranging, cutting across issues in historiography, literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, theology, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
This book represents the first full-length study of Certeau's thought. It is organized around the central theme of interpretation and alterity, which Ahearne uses to illuminate Certeau's work as a whole. The author also examines Certeau's theory and practice of historiography; his reflection on the relations between changing historical forms of writing, reading and orality; and his distinction between the "strategic" programmes of the politically powerful and the "tactics" of the relatively powerless.
Ahearne places Certeau's work in its general intellectual context, relating it to the views of important contemporary thinkers, such as Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, and demonstrating the decisive importance to Certeau's thought of the writings of the early modern mystics and travellers.
This book constitutes an excellent critical introduction to Certeau's work, while also providing a comprehensive and nuanced reading for those already familiar with his thought.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations. Introduction.
Part I: Implications:.
1. The Historiographical Operation.
2. Interpretation and its Archaeology.
Part II: Fables:.
3. Voices in the Text.
4. Mystics.
Part III: Strategies and Tactics:.
5. Strategic Operations.
6. Turns and Diversions.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
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