Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life

Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life
ISBN-10
0415065003
ISBN-13
9780415065009
Category
Psychology
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Stanley Cohen, Laurie Taylor

Description

From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.

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