Philosophizing the Everyday: The Philosophy of Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Studies

Presents a genealogy and critique of theories of the 'everyday', looking at the philosophical, political and cultural conflicts and contexts which transformed it, after the Russian revolution, into a term identifiable with the vicissitudes of cultural and social transformation and democrat...

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Published in:	Radical philosophy 1999-11 (98), p.16-29
Main Author:	Roberts, John
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Benjamin, Walter Concepts Everyday Life France Gramsci, Antonio History of Sociology Intellectual History Lefebvre, Henri Marxist Analysis Praxis Social Criticism Social Philosophy Sociology of Culture
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Summary:	Presents a genealogy and critique of theories of the 'everyday', looking at the philosophical, political and cultural conflicts and contexts which transformed it, after the Russian revolution, into a term identifiable with the vicissitudes of cultural and social transformation and democratization, leading up to its assimilation into cultural studies proper in the 1970s. Concentrates, first, on the debates among German and Soviet thinkers in Marxist philosophy and culture from 1910 to 1939, and secondly on the postwar reconstruction of the concept in the new Marxism and the arrival of cultural studies in France after World War II. Includes references to Karl Korsch, Georg Lukacs, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Boris Arvatov, Martin Heidegger and Michel de Certeau. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:	0300-211X