The Writing of History (European Perspectives S)
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A leading intellectual member of Frances Freudian school Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion history and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In The Writing of History de Certeau examines the Wests changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freuds Moses and Monotheism with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankinds feelings of loss mourning and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunningly innovative The Writing of History is a crucial introduction to de Certeaus work and is destined to become a classic of modern thought.
