Writing of History

Name: Writing of History
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ISBN: 9780231055758

ISBN-10: 0231055757

ISBN-13: 9780231055758

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michel de Certeau, Tom Conley, Michel de Certeau

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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…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/29/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

The lateMichel de Certeauwas Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego.



Introduction: Writings and Histories



Productions of Places



Making History: Problems of Method and Problems of Meaning



The Historiographical Operation



Productions of Time: A Religious Archeology Introduction: Questions of Method



The Inversion of What Can Be Thought: Religious History in the Seventeenth Century



The Formality of Practices: From Religious Systems to the Ethics of the Enlightenment ( the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)



Systems of Meaning: Speech and Writing



Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other, by Jean de LTry



Language Altered: The Sorcerer's Speech



A Variant: Hagio-Graphical Edification



Freudian Writing



What Freud Makes of History: "A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis"



The Fiction of History: The Writing of Moses and Monotheism