Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In "Critiques of Everyday Life" Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorizing.

Michael E. Gardiner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Dada and Surrealism: Poetics of Everyday Life; Chapter 3 Bakhtin's Prosaic Imagination; Chapter 4 Henri Lefebvre: Philosopher of the Ordinary; Chapter 5 The Situationist International: Revolution at the Service of Poetry; Chapter 6 Agnes Heller: Rationality, Ethics and Everyday Life; Chapter 7 Michel de Certeau: The Cunning of Unreason; Chapter 8 Dorothy E. Smith: A Sociology for People; Chapter 9 Conclusion;