The Practice of Everyday Life

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau 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. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

• The Production of Space
• The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking
• Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
• Everyday Apocalypse
• The Poetics of Space
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
• Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
• Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text
• The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
• We Have Never Been Modern