About this title: From the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history.
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Description: Very Good. Columbia University Press, TPB, 1975, 1988 reprint. Lightly used, binding reasonably tight, remaindered but no markings or highlighting on text, light wear on corners, sun fade on spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780231055758ISBN:0231055757
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780231055758ISBN:0231055757
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON, USA
ISBN-13:9780231055758ISBN:0231055757
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780231055741ISBN:0231055749
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ISBN-13:9780231055758ISBN:0231055757
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By Tank,
eastern central scotland, The United Kingdom
"ever come across someone who says what you think? it's so hard for me, but here is a man that does. really, if this man were still alive, i'd go to him and prostrate myself in front of him.
"thus historians can write only by combining within their practise the "other" that moves and misleads them and the real that they can represent only through fiction."
i am reading this book for an essay on the myth of secularism. i have wanted to write this essay for 2 years, for i realised, about 6 months into a degree in the study of religions, that i could never write honestly and with justice of the Other, until i understood the "other" that dwelled within me. and that "other", as a westerner, is a christian. so then, this book was chosen to show me how to rid myself of the "other", so i might see the Other on their own terms, with their own questions. i don't think i'll ever get to that though. as usual, i find the depths of myself far too interesting to move on..."
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