The practice of everyday life
By: Michel de Certeau ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Social history
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 205-229.
Translation of: Arts de faire, which was v. 1 of L'invention du quotidien.