Critiques of Everyday Life: An Introduction, Gardiner 9780415113144 New..

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This book proposes that there exists a counter tradition within everyday life theorising. This has sought not merely to describe lived experience but to transform it by elevating our understanding to the status of a critical knowledge. > \nRecent 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.\nIn his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including:\n*The French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau\n*Agnes H.