1976
First Published
3.81
Average Rating
254
Number of Pages
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.Avg Rating
3.81
Number of Ratings
54
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Stanley Cohen
Author · 11 books
There are more than one Stanley Cohen author. *Stanley Cohen (1922-): USA biochemist *Stanley Cohen (1928–2010): USA crime novelist *Stanley Cohen (1934-): USA sport writer *Stanley Cohen (1937-): USA biologist *Stanley Cohen (1942–2013): South Africa-British sociologist
