The Practice Of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau
Living and Cooking
This insightful work delves into the ways individuals navigate and manipulate the structures of everyday life, offering a fresh perspective on the interplay between power and creativity. It explores how ordinary people, through their daily practices and routines, subtly resist and reinterpret the dominant cultural and societal norms imposed upon them. By examining the "arts of doing," such as walking, cooking, and reading, the text reveals the ingenious tactics employed by individuals to assert their agency and craft personal spaces of freedom within the constraints of modern life.
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- 1980
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- French
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- 300-350
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