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About the book >.>.> Michel de Certean is the author of nearly a score of books that range in subject matter from theology and history of religions to anthropology and that include theoretical reflections on the writing of history as well as contributions to con temporary cultural criticism literary theory and the analysis of everyday lif In his case this is not merely an indication of a profusion of intellectual interess but rather the proper and legitimate exercise of certifiably acquired knowledge: he has received advanced training in theology history the study of comparative religions psychoanalysis and anthropology. He has taught in all these fields at major universities in France and in the Americas and is currently dividing his time between the University of California at Los Angeles where he teaches hit erature and Paris where in addition to his teaching and research duties he is active in a number of collective endeavors not the least of which is the journal Traverses a very stimulating pluridisciplinary publication of the design center at Beaubourg. The present volume provides ample evidence of this wide range of activity. and its title though perhaps not altogether euphonious in English is further indi- cation that the author not only is aware of this but intends it. Heterology is a term that has come to designate a philosophical countertradition that in short- hand could be described as being deeply suspicious of the Parmenidean prin- ciple of the identity of thought and being. Although de Certeau does not make overt reference to the themes and motifs of this tradition his choice of title sig nificantly pluralized places him among those who have reacted against the modern forms of this prejudice that is against the mainstream of speculative (LL)