Böcker av Michael Gardiner

This book proposes that there exists a counter tradition within everyday life theorising. This has sought not merely to describe lived experience but to transform it by elevating our understanding to the status of a critical knowledge.

This book charts the course of Scottish Critical Theory since the 1960s.

As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book fulfils the demand.

This book is a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction.

This book presents a provocative argument which suggests that cultural devolution preceded and indeed forced political change.