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Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life (Paperback)

by Stanley Cohen (Author), Laurie Taylor (Author) "This is a book about everyday life, the precariousness of that life, and the tenuousness of the identities that we construct within it ..." (more)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (1 Oct 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415065003
ISBN-13: 978-0415065009
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 472,630 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`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

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

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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 `paramount reality'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and very comprehensable, 19 Feb 2002

By	cushere49@hotmail.com (Scotland, Aberdeen) - See all my reviews

An excallent book about resistance to everyday life's routines, based on a sociological reasearch in prison, which makes it even more accurate given that you have not much of an option to resist to everyday life's routine being locked up in a cell with very few privileges and certainly not much of a spare time. Plus, you are being forced to be taken orders, and certainly not giving any.
Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor have indeed written a brilliant book that needs no further introduction, and it is very much approachable and easily read. 'The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life' is a must book for anyone who is deeply concerned of the loss of identity in post-modern society.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic book, 5 Feb 2005

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Escape attempts is a fantastic book. I read it during my time at university and it was a key text I used in my dissertation. I have to say it was a joy to read one that opened my eyes to the pitfalls of repetitive live and solitude. if you are getting this book for academic purposes or just because you thought it was and interesting book to read eiather way you will not be disappointed

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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth 100 "self help" books, 24 Aug 2007

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This book is worth a hundred self help books but is not one. It is one of the books I have probably mentioned at least once to all my friends and colleagues. (It seems I can be boring.) I gained valuable insights by reading this book, which is a gentle and thorough exposition into what people are attempting to escape from, and whether, by trying to do so, they will be happier. The book was inspired by an investigation by the authors into how to motivate long term prisoners to be more happy and less troublesome. The startling conclusion was that many such prisoners are reasonably happy and quite well behaved. Why this is is generalised by the authors into lessons for us all.

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