Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings
Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings
by Michel De Certeau
University of Minnesota Press, 1997Cloth : 978-0-8166-2768-4 | Paper : 978-0-8166-2769-1
Library of Congress Classification P40.C4413 1997Dewey Decimal Classification 306.44
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction: How Tomorrow Is Already Being Born
Part I:
May 1968
An Event: The Capture of Speech
“Symbolic” Demonstrations
Language and Power: Representation
From the Capture of Speech to Speech “Recaptured”
A Rift between “Saying” and “Doing”
The Same and the Other in Knowledge
A Problem of Civilization?
5.
The Publishers' Harvest: May Seen in September
Sounds, Images, Quotables
The ORTF (French Radio and Television Service)
To Explain or to Understand?
6.
A Literature of Disquiet: A Year Later
An Annotated Bibliography
Part II:
The Americas: A Political Awakening
7.
Violent Mystics and Nonviolent Strategies
“Impasses” and New Inroads of Popular Religion
Laboratories That Take Charge
Part III:
The Everyday Nature of Communication
The Ethnic and the Familial
The Practices of Circulation
The Past of People Who Have No History
The Immigrant as a Social Figure of Communication
Part IV:
Ethnic Economies
14.
An Interethnic Encounter
15.
Conceptual Assimilation
An Ideological Eclecticism
Individual Rights and Collective Rights
16.
The Active and Passive of Appurtenances
17.
The School for Diversity
Afterword: The “Events” and Their Erosion