Michel De Certeau Quotes


The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.


Citations

De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall, University of California Press, 1984, p. 107.

Related Quotes

Hitler’s concept of a “New World Order” was the Conquest of Europe by Germany and thereafter the control be Nazi Germany. Germany’s ally, Japan, also used the idea of a New Asian Order where peace would be brought to Asia controlled and enforced by Japan.


This statement was made more than 1/2 a year after he was pushed out of his job of WHite House Cheif of Stafff by President Donald Trump


No Photo Available
  • Born: May 17, 1925
  • Died: January 9, 1986
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Michel de Certeau SJ was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as the philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian with interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.