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.
Price: $38.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
29 October 1992
Trim Size: 8.70 X 5.80 in
ISBN: 9780231055758
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Historiography, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism
Erudite in the extreme... Brilliant and rewarding.
Michel de Certeau taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris and at the University of California, San Diego, where he was also chairman of the literature department. He authored over a dozen books, including The Mystical Fable, Heterologies: Discourses on the Other, and The Practice of Everyday Life. Tom Conley, Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, is the author of Film Hieroglyphics and The Graphic Unconscious. He has also translated Gilles Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.
Introduction: Writings and Histories
Part 1: Productions of Places
1. Making History: Problems of Method and Problems of Meaning
2. The Historiographical Operation
Part II. Productions of Time: A Religious Archeology
Introduction: Questions of Method
3. The Inversion of What Can Be Thought: Religious History in the Seventeenth Century
4. The Formality of Practices: From Religious Systems to the Ethics of the Enlightenment ( the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
Part III: Systems of Meaning: Speech and Writing
5. Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other , by Jean de Léry
6. Language Altered: The Sorcerer's Speech
7. A Variant: Hagio-Graphical Edification
Part IV. Freudian Writing
8. What Freud Makes of History: "A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis"
9. The Fiction of History: The Writing of Moses and MonotheismIndex
