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- English
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'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday.
With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think.
Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life.
'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday.
With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think.
Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life.
'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman
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Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Also by Michael Foley
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- PART I - The Significance of the Insignificant
- 1. All Aboard the Orient Express!
- 2. The High Priests of Low Life
- PART II - The Holy Trinity of Re-enchantment
- 3. Losing the Plot: The Imaginative Vision
- 4. Getting the Joke: The Comic Vision
- 5. Consecrating the Commonplace: The Spiritual Vision
- PART III - What We Say and What We Do
- 6. The Opera of Everyday Speech
- 7. The Masquerade of Everyday Behaviour
- PART IV - The Everyday Self
- 8. The Miracle of Consciousness and Memory
- 9. The Madness of Status and Snobbery
- 10. The Weirdness of Love and Sex
- PART V - The Everyday Environment
- 11. The City
- 12. The Office
- 13. Home
- PART VI - The Centre for the Appreciation of Everyday Life
- 14. The Centre for the Appreciation of Everyday Life
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index