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Culture In The Plural

by Michel De Certeau
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Cloth: 978-0-8166-2766-0 | Paper: 978-0-8166-2767-7
Library of Congress Classification HM101.C4213 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 306

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Preface
    • Introduction: Opening the Possible
      • Giard, Luce
    • Part I: 
    • Exoticisms and Ruptures of Language
      • 1. 
      • The Revolution of the “Believable”
        • Against Unconsciousness
        • The Unbelievable
        • Emigration
        • The Refusal of Insignificance
        • Hidden Revolutions
        • Words and Representatives
        • An “Infinite Task”
      • 2. 
      • The Imaginary of the City
        • Fiction Given to the Eye?
        • Discourse of Advertising
        • The Body of Happiness
        • From the Exotic Body to Critical Speech
        • Having a Blast
      • 3. 
      • The Language of Violence
        • A Literature of Desertion
        • Power without Authority: Bureaucratic Tyranny
        • A Society of Eviction
        • The Practice of Blasphemy
        • Struggle, Taking Charge of Violence
    • Part II: 
    • New Marginalisms
      • 4. 
      • Universities versus Popular Culture
        • From Selection to Production
        • A Rupture: Scientific Research and the Massification of Recruitment
        • Numbers, a Source of Heterogeneity
        • Cultural Production
        • Autonomy: A Lure
      • 5. 
      • Culture and the Schools
        • The Content of Teaching and the Pedagogical Relation
        • Academies of Knowledge Transformed into the Club Med?
        • The Distortions between Supply and Demand
        • Research, a “Political” Problem
        • A Critical School
        • A Multiplicity of Cultural Places
      • 6. 
      • Minorities
        • Political or Cultural Manifestos?
        • The Imperialism of Ethnological Knowledge
        • The Idiom of Autonomy
    • Part III: 
    • Cultural Politics
      • 7. 
      • The Social Architecture of Knowledge
        • A Conception of Culture: The Elite and the Mass
        • “The Number Began to Live”
        • The Function of Knowledge in Consumer Society (Herbert Marcuse)
        • Social Structures and Systems of Representation
      • 8. 
      • Culture within Society
        • ABCs of Culture
        • A Social Functioning
        • A Topography of Questions
        • A Field of Strategic Possibilities
        • Politics and Culture
      • 9. 
      • The Place from Which One Deals with Culture
        • The Constraints of an Objective
        • The Limits of a Specialty: The Prospective
        • A Sociopolitical Condition
        • European Closure
      • 10. 
      • Conclusion: Spaces and Practices
        • The Soft and the Hard
        • A Pathological Zone
        • The French Theater
        • Permanences: The Borderline of a Silence
        • A Creative Swarm
        • Some Cultural Operations
    • Afterword: A Creative Swarm
      • Conley, Tom
    • Notes
    • Index
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