Philosophizing the everyday : revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory

Roberts, John 1955- (Author).

Summary: "Many theorists conceptualize the 'everyday' as a place where a democracy of taste is brought into being. After modernism and postmodernism, they argue, art is to be found everywhere celebrity magazines to shopping malls. John Roberts argues that this understanding of the everyday downgrades its revolutionary meaning and philosophical implications. Asserting that the everyday should not be narrowly identified with the popular, Roberts critiques the way in which the concept is now overly associated with consumption and 'ordinariness'. Engaging with the work of key thinkers including, Lukács, Arvatov, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Gramsci, Barthes, Vaneigem, and de Certeau, Roberts shows how the concept of the everyday continues to be central to debates on ideology, revolution and praxis. He offers a lucid account of different approaches that developed over the course of the twentieth century."--Book cover

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ISBN: 9781281750877
ISBN: 9780745324111
ISBN: 9780745324104
ISBN: 1281750875
ISBN: 0745324118
ISBN: 074532410X
ISBN: 9786611750879
ISBN: 9781849644648
ISBN: 9781435662568
ISBN: 6611750878
ISBN: 1849644640
ISBN: 1435662563
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages)
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Publisher: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:july.24
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: Dangerous Memories --- 1. The Everyday and the Philosophy of Praxis --- 2. The Everyday as Trace and Remainder --- 3. Lefebvre's Dialectical Irony: Marx and the Everyday.
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Language Note:	English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
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