num_pages: 229
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 brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
language: English
title: The Practice of Everyday Life
titlecomplete: The Practice of Everyday Life
genres: France, Architecture, Philosophy, Sociology, Art, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Cultural Studies, Anthropology
ratings_count: 3915
series: The Practice of Everyday Life
publisher: University of California Press