The practice of everyday life

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.

subjects: 20th century,  Addresses, essays, lectures,  Conduct of life in literature,  Cookery, French,  France,  French Cookery,  Life skills,  Resistance (Psychoanalysis),  Social history,  Social life and customs,  Gedrag,  Cultuurfilosofie,  French Cooking,  Analysis (Philosophy),  Sozialgeschichte,  Alltag,  Conduct of life,  France, social life and customs,  Cooking, french,  Social psychology,  Politics and culture,  Hn8 .c4313 1984,  909

Places: France

Times: 20th century