Ordinary Lives
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: 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...
DOI: 10.4000/132ra
Author: Fabienne Moine
Institution: Université Paris-Est Créteil
Language: French
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406315014