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Michel de Certeau
French Jesuit and scholar (1925-1986) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 60
Michel Jean Emmanuel de La Barge de Certeau was a French Jesuit Catholic priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion.
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He was known as a philosopher of everyday life and was widely regarded as a historian with interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in The Mystic Fable (1982) to contemporary urban life in The Practice of Everyday Life (1980).
