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Article: Critiques of Everyday Life. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
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- June 22, 2002
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Michael E. Gardiner, Critiques of Everyday Life. London & New York: Routledge, 2000, 242 pp.
In Critiques of Everyday Life, Michael E. Gardiner writes about a "counter-tradition" in social theory about everyday life, by which he means the twentieth-century European intellectual tradition embedded in the philosophical and cultural debates with Marxism, and challenged by the historical and political contradictions of Western modernity. In particular, Gardiner revisits the often neglected contributions of Dada and Surrealism, Mikhail Bakhtin, Henri Lefebvre, The Situationist International and Guy Debord, Agnes Heller, Michel de Certeau and Dorothy E. Smith, devoting ...