Critiques of Everyday Life: An IntroductionRecent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. 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 that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: *The French tradition of everyday life theorising, 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, multidisciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorising and empirical research. |
Contents
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poetics of everyday life | 24 |
3 Bakhtins prosaic imagination | 43 |
philosopher of the ordinary | 71 |
revolution at the service of poetry | 102 |
rationality ethics and everyday life | 127 |
the cunning of unreason | 157 |
a sociology for people | 180 |
9 Conclusion | 207 |
Notes | 209 |
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