This volume brings together, for the first time, a variety of texts from Certeau's book and journal publications which have proved important in the various disciplines where Certeau has had an influence.
Edited by:
Graham Ward
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 154mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780631212799
ISBN 10: 0631212795
Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 November 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
,
A / AS level
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. (Graham Ward). Part I Other Times: Historiography. 1 Introduction: Michael de Certeau on Histography. 2 Writings and Histories. 3 History: Science and Fiction. Part II Other Cities: Cultural Politics. 4 Introduction. (Tom Conley). 5 A Symbolic Revolution. 6 The Social Architecture of Knowledge. 7 The Indian Long March. Part III Other People: Ethnorgraphy and Social Practice. 8 Introduction. (Ian Buchannan). 9. Walking in the City. 10. Believing and Making People Believe. 11. Ethno-Graphy, Speech, or the space of the Other. (Jean de Lery). Part IV Other Languages: Speech and Writing. 12. Introduction. (Jeremy Ahearne). 13. The Scriptural Economy. 14. The World of the Vowel. 15. Mystic Speech. Part V Other Beliefs: Theology. 16. Introduction: Michel de Certeau, Theologst. (Frederick Bauerschmidt). 17. The Weakness of Believing. From the Body to Writing a Christian Transit. Select Bibliography. Index.
Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of numerous articles published throughout the world on theology, critical theory and literary theory. His previous books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), The Postmodern God (Blackwell Publishers, 1997), Radical Orthodoxy (1998) and Balthasar at the End of Modernity (1999). He is also editor of the journal Literature and Theology.
Reviews for The Certeau Reader
"""This excellent new reader is divided into five sections touching on different aspects of Certeau's work and his engagement with issues regarding the Other, spatiality, colonialism, the body, oppression, and others."" The Front Table"
