Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance in Everyday Life - Softcover

Stanley Cohen; Laurie Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415065003 ISBN 13: 9780415065009

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanley Cohen is Professor of Criminology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1964). Laurie Taylor is Professor of Sociology at the University of York. He is a weekly columnist for the Times Higher Education Supplement.

Review:

"The new introduction is a fine piece of work . . . the book is even more timely today than it was fifteen years ago when the first edition was published."
-Christopher Lasch, author of "The Culture of Narcissism
""Escape Attempts pays homage to the diverse, often ingenious ways in which people everywhere set about constructing a fragile architecture round themselves capable of withstanding the dreary pressures not just of paramount reality' but of sociological theory itself."
-Dick Hebdige, author of "Hiding in the Light

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0415065003
• ISBN 13: 9780415065009
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264