Critiques of Everyday Life

<p>Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In <em>Critiques of Everyday Life</em> 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.<br>In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including:<br>*The French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau<br>*Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics<br>*Carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin<br>*Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life.<br><em>Critiques of Everyday Life</em> 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.</p> Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Dada and Surrealism: Poetics of Everyday Life; Chapter 3 Bakhtin’s Prosaic Imagination; Chapter 4 Henri Lefebvre: Philosopher of the Ordinary; Chapter 5 The Situationist International: Revolution at the Service of Poetry; Chapter 6 Agnes Heller: Rationality, Ethics and Everyday Life; Chapter 7 Michel de Certeau: The Cunning of Unreason; Chapter 8 Dorothy E. Smith: A Sociology for People; Chapter 9 Conclusion;