Michel De Certeau

Analysing Culture

Ben Highmore

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9780826460738
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847143068
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Abbreviations of works
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1 Ways of Operating: Introducing Michel de Certeau’s Methodological Imagination
• 2 An Epistemological Awakening: History and Writing
• 3 The Oceanic Rumble of the Ordinary: Psychoanalysis and Culture
• 4 Zones of Silence: Orality, Archives and Resistance
• 5 The Zoo of Everyday Practices: Literature, Narratives, Voices
• 6 An Art of Diversion: Cultural Policy and the Counter Public Sphere
• 7 Cultural Studies: A Practitioner’s Art (Conclusion)
• Index