The Philosopher
Michel de Certeau
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- French
- Schools:
- Annales school
- Branchs:
- History, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, social sciences, Hermeneutics, semiotics, Ethnology, Religion, Everyday life, Urban life, Ressourcement theology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Greimasian semiotics, Nouvelle histoire, Cultural anthropology, Historical anthropology
- Period:
- 20th century
The synopsis
The works
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Writing of History
The Capture of Speech
The Possession at Loudun
The Mystic Fable
La prise de parole, pour une nouvelle culture
L'Etrangeur, ou l'union dans la difference
L'Absent de l'histoire
La Culture au pluriel
L'Ecriture de l'histoire
Le christianisme eclaté
La fable mystique
La possession de Loudun
Guide spirituel pour la perfection
Correspondance
Histoire et psychanalyse entre science et fiction
La Faiblesse de Croire
The quotes
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.