Philosophizing the everyday : revolutionary praxis and the fate of cultural theory / John Roberts.

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Roberts, John, 1955-

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TextSeries: Marxism and culturePublication details: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 147 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781435662568
1435662563
9781849644648
1849644640

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophizing the everyday.DDC classification:

303.4 22

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B831.2 .R63 2006
BD460.E94 R63 2006

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Contents:

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.

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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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

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