Michel de Certeau; analysing culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0826460720

Michel de Certeau; analysing culture.

Highmore, Ben.

Continuum Publishing Group

2006

188 pages

$130.00

Hardcover

B4705

How can pursuing a "science of singularity," structurally a contradiction, be useful in revealing what lies behind culture? Highmore (U. of the West of England, Bristol) shows what needs to happen to both "science" and "singularity" for them to reveal...

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