The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 1In this incisive book, 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 to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature. |
Contents
A VERY ORDINARY CULTURE | 1 |
Uses and Tactics | 29 |
THEORIES OF THE ART OF PRACTICE | 43 |
Story Time | 77 |
SPATIAL PRACTICES | 91 |
Railway Navigation and Incarceration | 111 |
Uses of Language | 131 |
Quotations of Voices | 154 |
Reading as Poaching | 165 |
WAYS OF BELIEVING | 177 |
Indeterminate | 199 |
Notes | 205 |
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