Michel de Certeau

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Michel de Certeau SJ (French: [sɛʁto]; 17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit priest^[1] and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences^[2] as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion.^[3] 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.^[2]