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Michel de Certeau

Born

in Chambéry, France

May 17, 1925

Died

January 09, 1986

Genre

History, Philosophy, Social Sciences

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Michel de Certeau, historian, cultural theorist, psychoanalyst, and theologian was one of the most multifaceted French intellectuals and scholars of the late 20th century. His concept of everyday life practices was of signal importance for the development of cultural studies in the Anglo-Saxon world. His use of space as a key category in the history and analysis of cultural practices has also influenced the later “spatial turn” in history and art history. Finally, his works on early modern mysticism constitute ground-breaking research in religious studies and theology. Interestingly enough, these studies on mysticism were less influential in the Anglo-Saxon world than they were in France or Germany, whence the distinction between the “Ameri ...more

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	The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau, Steven F. Rendall (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 3,962 ratings — published 1980 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writing of History by Michel de Certeau, Tom Conley (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Possession at Loudun by Michel de Certeau, Michael B. Smith (Translator), Stephen Greenblatt (Introduction) 3.84 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking by Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1980 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystic Fable, Volume One: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Volume 1) (Religion and Postmodernism) by Michel de Certeau, Michael B. Smith (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1982 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Volume 17) (Theory and History of Literature) by Michel de Certeau, Brian Massumi (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 55 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture In The Plural by Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, Tom Conley (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HISTOIRE ET PSYCHANALYSE ENTRE SCIENCE ET FICTION 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Certeau Reader by Michel de Certeau (editor), Graham Ward 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De vreemdeling. Eenheid in verschil by Michel de Certeau, Willy Hemelrijk (Translator), Inigo Bocken (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Practice of Everyday Life (2 books)
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Michel de Certeau,

Luce Giard,

Pierre Mayol (Contributor)

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“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: 103, city, identity, nowhere, pedestrianism, walking

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“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: 110, architecture, childhood, city, walking

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“The long poem of walking manipulates spatial organizations, no matter how panoptic they may be: it is neither foreign to them (it can take place only within them) nor in conformity with them (it does not receive its identity from them). It creates shadows and ambiguities within them. It inserts its multitudinous references and citations into them (social models, cultural mores, personal factors). Within them it is itself the effect of successive encounters and occasions that constantly alter it and make it the other's blazon: in other words, it is like a peddler carrying something surprising, transverse or attractive compared with the usual choice. These diverse aspects provide the basis of a rhetoric. They can even be said to define it.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

tags: 101, pedestrianism, walking

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