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>