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Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings

by Michel De Certeau
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Cloth: 978-0-8166-2768-4 | Paper: 978-0-8166-2769-1
Library of Congress Classification P40.C4413 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.44

TOC

  • Contents 
    • Introduction: How Tomorrow Is Already Being Born
    • Part I: 
    • May 1968
      • 1. 
      • A Symbolic Revolution
      • Impossible to Forget
      • Symbolic Action
      • A Revolution of Words
      • 2. 
      • Capturing Speech
      • An Event: The Capture of Speech
      • A Choice
      • Theory and Innovation
      • “Accident” or Principle?
      • “Symbolic” Demonstrations
      • 3. 
      • The Power of Speech
      • Language and Power: Representation
      • From the Capture of Speech to Speech “Recaptured”
      • The Power of Speaking
      • A Rift between “Saying” and “Doing”
      • The Law of “Disorder”
      • 4. 
      • For a New Culture
      • The Return of Language
      • From Events to History
      • The Same and the Other in Knowledge
      • A Problem of Civilization?
      • 5. 
      • The Publishers' Harvest: May Seen in September
      • A General Presentation
      • Chroniclers
      • Sounds, Images, Quotables
      • Humor and Drawings
      • Three Dossiers
      • Eyewitness Accounts
      • The ORTF (French Radio and Television Service)
      • The March 22d Movement
      • Political Commentaries
      • To Explain or to Understand?
      • 6. 
      • A Literature of Disquiet: A Year Later
      • Reflective Points
      • An Annotated Bibliography
    • Part II: 
    • The Americas: A Political Awakening
      • 7. 
      • Violent Mystics and Nonviolent Strategies
      • The Guerrilla Martyr
      • “Impasses” and New Inroads of Popular Religion
      • Laboratories That Take Charge
    • Part III: 
    • The Everyday Nature of Communication
      • 8. 
      • A Necessary Music
      • Levels and Registers
      • Options
      • Needs
      • 9. 
      • Priorities
      • Orality
      • Operativeness
      • A Logic to Be Sought
      • 10. 
      • Networks
      • The Local
      • The Ethnic and the Familial
      • The Bonds of Labor
      • 11. 
      • Operators
      • Intermediaries
      • Media Shifters
      • The Practices of Circulation
      • 12. 
      • Memories
      • Life Stories
      • The Past of People Who Have No History
      • 13. 
      • Propositions
      • The Immigrant as a Social Figure of Communication
      • General Orientations
      • Proposed Measures
    • Part IV: 
    • Ethnic Economies
      • 14. 
      • An Interethnic Encounter
      • 15. 
      • Conceptual Assimilation
      • An Ideological Eclecticism
      • Culture or Economics?
      • Individual Rights and Collective Rights
      • Masked Figures
      • 16. 
      • The Active and Passive of Appurtenances
      • Hybridizations
      • Politicizations
      • Lists of Practices
      • 17. 
      • The School for Diversity
    • Afterword: The “Events” and Their Erosion
    • Notes
    • Index
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