A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In "The Writing of History," de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself, from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankind's feelings of loss, mourning, and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunningly innovative, "The Writing of History" is a crucial introduction to de Certeau's work and is destined to become a classic of modern thought.
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A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In "The Writing of History," de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself, from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankind's feelings of loss, mourning, and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunningly innovative, "The Writing of History" is a crucial introduction to de Certeau's work and is destined to become a classic of modern thought.
Imprint | Columbia University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | October 1992 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
Authors | Michel De Certeau |
Translators | Tom Conley |
Dimensions | 228 x 147 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-05575-8 |
Barcode | 9780231055758 |
Languages | value |
Subtitles | value |
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LSN | 0-231-05575-7 |