Ebook: The writing of history

— transl. T. Conley. — New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. — xxviii, 368 p. — (European Perspectives). — Пер. изд.: L'ecriture de l'histoire / M. Certeau. — Paris, 1975. — ISBN 0-231-05575-7.
A leading intellectual and member of France's 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 West's changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself, from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankind's feelings of loss, mourning, and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunningly innovative, "The Writing of History" is a crucial introduction to de Certeau's work and is destined to become a classic of modern thought. Michel de Certeau taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris and at the University of California, San Diego, where he was also chairman of the literature department. He authored over a dozen books, including "The Mystical Fable", "Heterologies : Discourse on the Other", and "The Practice of Everyday Life".Contents:.
For a Literary Historiography: Translator's Introduction.
Writings and Histories: Introduction.
Productions of Places: Part I.
Making History: Problems of Method and Problems of Meaning.
The Historiographical Operation.
Productions of Time: a Religious Archeology: Part II.
Questions of Method: Introduction.
The Inversion of What Can Be Thought: Religious History in the Seventeenth Century.
The Formality of Practices: From Religious Systems to the Ethics of the Enlightenment (the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries).
Systems of Meaning: Speech and Writing: Part III.
Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other: Jean de Lery.
Language Altered: the Sorcerer's Speech.
A Variant: Hagio-Graphical Edification.
Freudian Writing: Part IV.
What Freud Makes of History: "A Seventeenth-Century Demonological Neurosis".
The Fiction of History: The Writing of Moses and Monotheism.