Critiques of everyday life / Michael E. Gardiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardiner, Michael, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lefebvre, Henri, 1905-.

Lefebvre, Henri.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Heller, Ágnes.

Life.

Social history--Philosophy.

Social history.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent 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, includi

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dada and Surrealism: poetics of everyday life; Bakhtin's prosaic imagination; Henri Lefebvre: philosopher of the ordinary; The Situationist International: revolution at the service of poetry; Agnes Heller: rationality, ethics and everyday life; Michel de Certeau: the cunning of unreason; Dorothy E.Smith: a sociology for people; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-82953-1

0-203-17002-4

0-203-13085-5

1-134-82954-X

1-280-32953-X

9780203130858

OCLC:

56946620