PHILOSOPHER

Michel de Certeau

1925 - 1986

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Michel de Certeau (French: [sɛʁto]; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was known as a philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian who had interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life. A multidisciplinarian, he wrote ground-breaking studies in fields as diverse as mysticism, the act of faith, cultural dynamics in contemporary society, and historiography as an intellectual practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel de Certeau has received more than 349,422 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Michel de Certeau is the 462nd most popular philosopher (down from 427th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from France (down from 1,277th in 2019) and the 65th most popular French Philosopher.

Michel de Certeau is most famous for his book "The Practice of Everyday Life". In this book, he explains how people use spaces and everyday objects in their everyday lives.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michel de Certeau ranks 462 out of 1,267. Before him are Michel Serres, Philodemus, Martha Nussbaum, Priscian, Victor Cousin, and Vittorino da Feltre. After him are Zhiyi, Ivan Ilyin, Daniel Dennett, Vincent of Beauvais, George Pachymeres, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michel de Certeau ranks 80. Before him are Dick Van Dyke, Oscar Peterson, Ernest Gellner, Hilda Gadea, Charles Chaplin Jr., and Claude Lanzmann. After him are Hal Holbrook, Joshua Lederberg, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Harry Harrison, Gabriele Ferzetti, and Sufi Abu Taleb. Among people deceased in 1986, Michel de Certeau ranks 51. Before him are Raimundo Orsi, Altiero Spinelli, Ray Milland, Adolfo Celi, Vincente Minnelli, and Juan Rulfo. After him are Serge Lifar, Theodor Busse, Gusztáv Sebes, Lilli Palmer, Marcel Dassault, and Raymond Loewy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel de Certeau ranks 1,381 out of 6,770. Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Eva Green (1980), Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435), Arbogast (340), and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (1814). After him are Louise Moillon (1610), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), Mistinguett (1875), Raymond Radiguet (1903), and Henri Dutilleux (1916).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Michel de Certeau ranks 65. Before him are Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Petrus Ramus (1515), Maine de Biran (1766), Michel Serres (1930), and Victor Cousin (1792). After him are Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Pierre Duhem (1861), Guillaume Budé (1467), Louis Couturat (1868), and William of Champeaux (1070).

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