The politics and potential of everyday life

New Literary History

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 687-706

  Colebrook, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 5144232437     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2002.0036     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Such an understanding of everyday life is most evident in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, where everydayness (Alltaglichkeit) is inauthentically dominated by an anonymous "'they," where "das Mann" is both everyone and no-one, and where what is said and done is accepted without decision (Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, tr. Joan Stambaugh [New York, 1996])
2. Work on everyday life that, at least in part, adopts this Heideggerean tone includes Maurice Blanchot. "Everyday Speech." tr. Susan Hanson, Yale French Studies, 73 (1987), 12-20
3. Henri Lefebvre. Everyday Life in the Modern World, tr. Sacha Rabinovitz (London, 2000)
4. and Agnes Heller's Everyday Life, tr. G. L. Campbell; hereafter cited in text as EL
5. For every reading of Nietzsche that stresses the fluidity and impersonality of dynamic life, such as Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy, tr. Hugh Tomlinson (London. 1983). there is also a reading that emphasizes Nietzsche's explicit use of persona, language, and perspective, such as Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche: Life as Literature (Cambridge, Mass., 1985)
6. Nietzsche clearly describes the ways in which concepts and human reason are fictions imposed upon the flux of life in "On Truth and Lies in an Ultra-Moral Sense," in From Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s, tr. Daniel Breazeale (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1979)
7. Henri Bergson emphasizes the primacy and power of mobile life in relation to fixed concepts and perceptions in Creative Evolution, tr. Arthur Mitchell (New York, 1911)
8. Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, tr. Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, 1987), p. 389
9. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (Cambridge, 1989), p. 490
10. Both these definitional tendencies in understanding woman are evidenced in Henri Lefevbre's Introduction to Modernity, where the feminine is both the body that must be conquered to realize civilization and the domination of nature, and the false development of autonomy, where the demand for women's rights perverts and distorts the passage to the full appropriation of nature and the realization of freedom. In this false appropriation, woman is against life: "She is undermining everything she lives for, everything she loves, everything she aspires to, life itself (Henry Lefebvre, Introduction to Modernity: Twelve Preludes September 1959-May 1961, tr. John Moore [London, 1995], p. 154)
11. This would be in direct contrast to what Slavoj Žižek has recently referred to as the individual's commitment to the truth of life (On Belief [London, 2001])
12. Alistair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Indiana, 1984)
13. Martha C. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge, 1986)
14. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
15. Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction by Jacques Derrida, tr. John P. Leavey (Lincoln, 1989), p. 153
16. Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, tr. George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert (London, 1972)
17. Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, tr. David Carr (Evanston, 1970), section 29
18. Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs, tr. David B. Allison (Evanston, 1973), p. 6
19. Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book, tr. F. Kersten (Dordrecht, 1982), p. 52
20. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York, 1968)
21. Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Use and Abuse of History," tr. Adrian Collins, in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Oscar Lew (London, 1910), vol. 5, part 2, p. 12
22. Hardt and Negri argue that from an "ontological perspective" - the perspective of being or life itself - the "multitude is the real productive force of our social world" (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire [Cambridge, Mass., 2000], p. 63; hereafter cited in text as E)
23. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, tr. Steven Randall (Berkeley, 1984), p. 25; hereafter cited in text as PE
24. Jacques Derrida, "Economimesis," tr. Peggy Kamuf, Diacritics, 11.2 (1981), 3-25, 6; hereafter cited in text as EM
25. Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, vol. 1, tr. John Moore (London, 1991). p. 178
26. Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, tr. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, 1985), pp. 134-46; hereafter cited in text as S
27. Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, tr. Peggy Kamuf (New York, 1984), p. 75
28. Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, tr. Paul Patton (New York, 1994)