Abstract
Abstract While recognizing that Michel de Certeau is not a Christian theologian, this essay argues for a way in which we might read his oeuvre as a mode of Jesuit apologetics. The basis for reading him as such is twofold. First, Certeau pays attention to the various movements of desire beneath the signs composing the discourses in the various fields of his enquiry. In tracing that transgressive desire, he is always to listening for the voice of the Other; an Other that transcends and subtends human language, but resists capture by it. Secondly, the style in which he writes allows for the ambiguities and ironies that must necessarily attend any attempt to give definitive voice to the Other. Examining these two aspects of Certeau’s oeuvre reveals a way, this essay argues, his work bears witness to the Unnamed in the secular world in which he works and the secular studies in which he engages.
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