Hegemony of common sense: wisdom and mystification in everyday life

By:

Manders, Dean Wolfe

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Peter Lang; 2006Description: 203 pISBN:

9780820479279

Subject(s):

Common sense

DDC classification:

335.411 MAN

Summary: The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom and Mystification in Everyday Life is a path-breaking synthesis, a unique contribution to the study of class and consciousness. Dean Wolfe Manders revisits a question posed by Sombart a century ago: «Why is there no socialism in the United States of America?» To probe this question, he initiates a multi-method study of capital and class as cultural realities. Class, he contends, is insinuated in the fabric of «everyday-historical» experience, which people process via often contradictory «common sense» categories. Artfully adapting themes from Gramsci, Marx, James, and Mead, Manders explores these categories from several angles. Particularly trenchant is his incisive inquiry into paroemiology, the study of popular sayings.

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The Hegemony of Common Sense: Wisdom and Mystification in Everyday Life is a path-breaking synthesis, a unique contribution to the study of class and consciousness. Dean Wolfe Manders revisits a question posed by Sombart a century ago: «Why is there no socialism in the United States of America?» To probe this question, he initiates a multi-method study of capital and class as cultural realities. Class, he contends, is insinuated in the fabric of «everyday-historical» experience, which people process via often contradictory «common sense» categories. Artfully adapting themes from Gramsci, Marx, James, and Mead, Manders explores these categories from several angles. Particularly trenchant is his incisive inquiry into paroemiology, the study of popular sayings.

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