TY - BOOK AU - Certeau,Michel de TI - The practice of everyday life SN - 0520061683 AV - HN8 .C4313 1988 U1 - 909 22 PY - 1988///, c1984 CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Social history N1 - Translation of: Arts de faire; "First paperback printing"--T.p. verso N2 - 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 on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature ER -