Böcker av Michel De Certeau

This volume provides an analysis of Christian mysticism during the 16th and 17th centuries, along with an application of the author's transdisciplinary historiography. It aims to reveal the "mystical" aspect of postmodernism's movement of perpetual departure.

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.

Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau has come to be seen as a founding figure in cultural studies. In this translation of "La Culture au Pluriel", de Certeau anticipates current debates surrounding multiculturalism and social diversity, providing a critique of identity politics.

From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history.

To remain unconsumed by consumer society was the goal of the first volume. Delving even deeper, this volume develops a social history of "making do" based on microhistories that move from the private sphere of dwelling, cooking and homemaking to the public experience of living in a neighbourhood).