Critiques of Everyday Life
An Introduction
- Editore:
Routledge
- EAN:
9780415113151
- ISBN:
0415113156
- Pagine:
- 256
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Critiques of Everyday Life
Everyday life is fast becoming a key concept within the social sciences and humanities. In this contemporary and highly relevant new book, Michael E. Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorizing. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge.In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches, including: -- The French tradition of everyday life theorizing, from the Surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau-- Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics-- Carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin-- Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life.Critiques of Everyday Life demonstrates the importance of an alternative, multi-disciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorizing and empirical research.
