The Certeau Reader / Edition 1

by Graham Ward

Overview

This volume brings together, for the first time, a variety of texts from Certeau's book and journal publications which have proved important in the various disciplines where Certeau has had an influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631212799
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/03/2000
Series:	Wiley Blackwell Readers
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.08(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of numerous articles published throughout the world on theology, critical theory and literary theory. His previous books include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology (1995), Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory (1996), The Postmodern God (Blackwell Publishers, 1997), Radical Orthodoxy (1998) and Balthasar at the End of Modernity (1999). He is also editor of the journal Literature and Theology.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction. (Graham Ward).

Part I Other Times: Historiography.

1 Introduction: Michael de Certeau on Histography.

2 Writings and Histories.

3 History: Science and Fiction.

Part II Other Cities: Cultural Politics.

4 Introduction. (Tom Conley).

5 A Symbolic Revolution.

6 The Social Architecture of Knowledge.

7 The Indian Long March.

Part III Other People: Ethnorgraphy and Social Practice.

8 Introduction. (Ian Buchannan).

9. Walking in the City.

10. Believing and Making People Believe.

11. Ethno-Graphy, Speech, or the space of the Other. (Jean de Lery).

Part IV Other Languages: Speech and Writing.

12. Introduction. (Jeremy Ahearne).

13. The Scriptural Economy.

14. The World of the Vowel.

15. Mystic Speech.

Part V Other Beliefs: Theology.

16. Introduction: Michel de Certeau, Theologst. (Frederick Bauerschmidt).

17. The Weakness of Believing. From the Body to Writing a Christian Transit.

Select Bibliography.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

John Frow

John Frow, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

A reader in Michel de Certeau's writings is timely. The five scholars nominated to do the sections of the reader are all leading figures in Certeau studies.

Fergus Kerr

Fergus Kerr, OP, Regent, Blackfriar's, Oxford

Anyone wanting to run a course on recent Roman Catholic theology or on postmodern theology should use this reader, and there is no rival—this reader makes far more of Certeau's work available for the first time. Ward's selection is very good.

Editorial Reviews

"This excellent new reader is divided into five sections touching on different aspects of Certeau's work and his engagement with issues regarding the Other, spatiality, colonialism, the body, oppression, and others." The Front Table

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