Michel De Certeau: Analysing Culture

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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.

BEN HIGHMORE is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

"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 To follow from Tom Conley (Harvard) and Elspeth Probyn (Sydney) * Blurb from reviewer *