This is an auction for ESCAPE ATTEMPTS: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RESISTANCE TO EVERYDAY LIFE, by Stanley Cohen & Laurie Taylor.

Amazon.com reviews:

"From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. The authors reveal the ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office. The book crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed."

"This is a book about escapes and escape attempts. But the men and women in these pages are not escaping from a prison; they are fleeing from the demands of everyday life, from the pressure of routine and ritual. Their search is for meaning, novelty, progress, and sense of identity. Some take a dramatic route away from mundane reality; obsessively committing themselves to the search for pleasure; or resorting to violence to demonstrate transcendence over ordinary life and its arrangements. This book describes their temporary triumphs; their eventual failures. The real heroes are not criminals, outsiders, revolutionaries or cultural critics; they are the millions of men and women who search for escape from reality in their everyday lives and find it in such diverse areas as hobbies, vacations, psychotherapy, art, music, games, fantasy, romantic love, sex, gambling, and mass culture. The book is a warning about society's strengths - but at the same time a homage to the self, a celebration of the daily struggle to rise above social destiny."

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: 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.

Hardback 1976.

232 pages.

Good condition.

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