Ordinary Lives
According to Michel de Certeau, ordinary people may be considered as ‘unrecognized producers, poets of their own acts, silent discoverers of their own paths in the jungle of functionalist rationality’. Through the choices and adaptations they make as they confront their world, they draw their own ‘...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2025
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | According to Michel de Certeau, ordinary people may be considered as ‘unrecognized producers, poets of their own acts, silent discoverers of their own paths in the jungle of functionalist rationality’. Through the choices and adaptations they make as they confront their world, they draw their own ‘“wandering lines”, their ‘“indirect” or “errant” trajectories obeying their own logic’ (de Certeau xviii). Individuals adapt in a number of different ways that, in the French philosopher’s view, ar... |
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