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.
Table of Contents
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
Author(s)
Ben Highmore,
Ben Highmore is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Reviews
"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 Gabon,