Philosophizing the everyday : revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory /
Roberts, John, 1955-
Philosophizing the everyday : revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory / John Roberts. - London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) - Marxism and culture . - Marxism and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143) and index.
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.
"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
9781435662568 (electronic bk.) 1435662563 (electronic bk.) 9781849644648 (electronic bk.) 1849644640 (electronic bk.) (hbk.) (hbk.) (pbk.) (pbk.)
22573/ctt184pmw2 JSTOR
Postmodernism.
Life.
Culture.
Postmodernisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Culture.
Life.
Postmodernism.
Kulturphilosophie
Alltag
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B831.2 / .R63 2006 BD460.E94 / R63 2006
303.4
Philosophizing the everyday : revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory / John Roberts. - London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages) - Marxism and culture . - Marxism and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143) and index.
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.
"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
9781435662568 (electronic bk.) 1435662563 (electronic bk.) 9781849644648 (electronic bk.) 1849644640 (electronic bk.) (hbk.) (hbk.) (pbk.) (pbk.)
22573/ctt184pmw2 JSTOR
Postmodernism.
Life.
Culture.
Postmodernisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Culture.
Life.
Postmodernism.
Kulturphilosophie
Alltag
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B831.2 / .R63 2006 BD460.E94 / R63 2006
303.4