Michel De Certeau: Analysing Culture by Ben Highmore (English) Paperback Book

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Michel de Certeau's seminal work, "The Practice of Everyday Life", is one of the most cited works in Sociology, Geography and Cultural Studies. Providing an account of de Certeau's work and its relation to the field of cultural studies, this book explores those aspects of de Certeau's work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies.

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Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of Michel de Certeau's work and its relation to the field of cultural studies. The book explores those aspects of de Certeau's work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies, highlighting the potential this work has for supplying a critical epistemology and a practical ethics for the study of culture within the arts and humanities more generally. Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture provides an ideal introduction to the work of this extraordinary and important thinker.

Author Biography

BEN HIGHMORE is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements1. Ways of Operating: Introducing Michel de Certeau's Methodological Imagination2. An Epistemological Awakening: History and Writing3. The Oceanic Rumble of the Ordinary: Psychoanalysis and Culture4. Zones of Silence: Orality, Archives, and Resistance5. The Zoo of Everyday Practices: Literature, Narratives, Voices6. An Art of Diversion: Cultural Policy and the Counter Public Sphere7. Cultural Studies: A Practitioner's Art

Review

"Highmore's contribution is not a general presentation of de Certeau's thought.  Rather, it is a complex, ambitious, and important study that requires some prior knowledge of de Certeau's major works and a familiarity with the discourses, disciplines, and fields of inquiry that have emerged over the past several decades in the wake of post-structuralism and deconstruction." —Alain Gabon, Virginia Wesleyan College, Substance, #115, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2008 -- Alain GabonTo follow from Tom Conley (Harvard) and Elspeth Probyn (Sydney) * Blurb from reviewer *

Long Description

Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of Michel de Certeau's work and its relation to the field of cultural studies. The book explores those aspects of de Certeau's work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies, highlighting the potential this work has for supplying a critical epistemology and a practical ethics for the study of culture within the arts and humanities more generally. Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture provides an ideal introduction to the work of this extraordinary and important thinker. >

Review Quote

To follow from Tom Conley (Harvard) and Elspeth Probyn (Sydney)

Details ISBN0826460739 Author Ben Highmore Short Title MICHEL DE CERTEAU Language English ISBN-10 0826460739 ISBN-13 9780826460738 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 194 Year 2006 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Subtitle Analysing Culture Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Birth 1961 DOI 10.1604/9780826460738 UK Release Date 2006-05-30 NZ Release Date 2006-05-30 Translated from English Pages 202 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2006-05-30 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2006-05-29 We've got this

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