On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language and Practices (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Contributors: Lydia G. Cochrane (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 21, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801854361
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Literary theory; Philosophy; Language and history; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; History
First sentence: "On the edge of the cliff": this image, which Michel de Certeau used to describe the work of Michel Foucault, seems to me appropriate for all intellectual approaches having at their heart relations between the products of discourse and social practices.