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9780415113151

Critiques of Everyday Life: An Introduction

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    9780415113151

  • ISBN10:

    0415113156

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-09-19
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. InCritiques of Everyday LifeMichael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorizing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
1(23)
Dada and Surrealism: poetics of everyday life
24(19)
Introduction
24(2)
Dada: the `crushing joke'
26(6)
Surrealism: alchemy of the word
32(9)
Conclusion
41(2)
Bakhtin's prosaic imagination
43(28)
Introduction
43(1)
Bakhtin's life and work: a brief sketch
44(2)
The philosophy of the act
46(7)
Intersubjectivity: the `I/Other' relation
53(3)
Dialogism and the `linguistic turn'
56(7)
Prosaics and carnival
63(7)
Conclusion
70(1)
Henri Lefebvre: philosopher of the ordinary
71(31)
Introduction
71(1)
Lefebvre's life and work: an overview
72(2)
The critique of everyday life
74(12)
Neo-capitalism, the festival and urbanism
86(13)
Conclusion
99(3)
The Situationist International: revolution at the service of poetry
102(25)
Introduction
102(1)
The Situationist International (1957--1972): a schematic history and overview
103(5)
The spectacle and everyday life
108(6)
Vaneigem and the critique of `survivalism'
114(4)
Resisting the spectacle
118(7)
Conclusion
125(2)
Agnes Heller: rationality, ethics and everyday life
127(30)
Introduction
127(1)
The social ontology of everyday life
128(14)
Rationality and ethics
142(10)
A note on utopia
152(3)
Conclusion
155(2)
Michel de Certeau: the cunning of unreason
157(23)
Introduction
157(1)
The popular culture debate
158(7)
The panoptical society and its discontents
165(3)
Tactics versus strategies
168(6)
The `grammar' of everyday practice
174(4)
Conclusion
178(2)
Dorothy E. Smith: a sociology for people
180(27)
Introduction
180(2)
Sociology and the `relations of ruling'
182(8)
A woman's point of view
190(7)
The everyday/everynight world
197(9)
Conclusion
206(1)
Conclusion
207(2)
Notes 209(10)
References 219(18)
Index 237

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