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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel de Certeau is the 481st most popular philosopher (down from 462nd in 2019), the 1,393rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,381st in 2019) and the 63rd 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 481 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Natorp, H. L. A. Hart, Porcia, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Philodemus, and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri. After him are Ernest Gellner, Leo Strauss, Pierre Duhem, Ronald Dworkin, Dicaearchus, and John Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michel de Certeau ranks 90. Before him are Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Greengard, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Martin Rodbell, Hal Holbrook, and Hilda Gadea. After him are Ernest Gellner, Ernesto Cardenal, Nicolai Gedda, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Toshio Iwatani, and Gabriele Ferzetti. Among people deceased in 1986, Michel de Certeau ranks 52. Before him are Ye Jianying, Serge Lifar, Dean Reed, Donna Reed, Coluche, and Aleksandr Akimov. After him are Theodor Busse, Minoru Yamasaki, Erik Bruhn, Adolfo Celi, Otto Preminger, and Gusztáv Sebes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel de Certeau ranks 1,393 out of 6,770. Before him are Clément Ader (1841), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Cléo de Mérode (1875), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), Léo Taxil (1854), and Benedict of Aniane (750). After him are Ernest Gellner (1925), Michel Verne (1861), Amandus (600), Pierre Duhem (1861), Arnulf of Metz (582), and Pierre de Marivaux (1688).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Michel de Certeau ranks 63. Before him are Étienne Gilson (1884), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Alain de Lille (1117), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Maine de Biran (1766), and Guillaume Budé (1467). After him are Ernest Gellner (1925), Pierre Duhem (1861), Petrus Ramus (1515), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), and Victor Cousin (1792).

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