Michel de Certeau

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Born:
May 17, 1925
Died:
Jan. 9, 1986

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Michel de Certeau SJ (French: [sɛʁto]; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as a philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as an historian who had interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.

Books by Michel de Certeau