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The practice of everyday life

Michel de Certeau, Steven Rendall (Translator)
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
Print Book, English, ©1984
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1984
xxiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm
9780520047501, 9780520236998, 9780520061682, 9780520271456, 9780520950665, 0520047508, 0520236998, 0520061683, 0520271459, 0520950666
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A very ordinary culture
Theories of the art of practice
Spatial practices
Uses of language
Ways of believing
Translation of: Arts de faire, which was v. 1 of L'invention du quotidien
Translation of: Arts de faire, which was v. 1 of L'invention du quotidien
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