Also by Agnes Heller Renaissance Man A Theory of History EVERYDAY LIFE | Agnes Heller » | translated from the Hungarian by G.L. Campbell ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LONDON, BOSTON, MELBOURNE AND HENLEYUBRARY, Unyen * RUTY OF H OF ALABAAA je iyy UNTSVILLE, ALA, ata fs MT First published as A mindennapi élet © Akadémai Kiadé, Budapest 1970 This translation first published in 1984 by Routledge & Kegan Paul ple 14 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7PH, England 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA 464 81 Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 IEN, England Photoset by Thomson Press (India) Léd., New Dethi and printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers Lid, Old Woking This translation © Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984 No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in enticism Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Heller, Agnes. Everyday life Translation of- A mindennapi élet. Includes index 1. Life. 2. Man. 1. Title BDA31.H39713 1984 12883-24619 British Library CIP data available ISBN 0-7100-9701-8 CONTENTS PREFACE 10 Titi ENGLISH EDITION Pant PARTICULARIY, INDIVIDUALITY, SOCIETY, ‘SPECIES-ESSENTIALITY Chapter 1 The abstract concept of ‘everyday life” Chapter 2. The ‘person’ a breakdown of the concept (a) The category of the ‘person’: (i) particularity (b) The category of the ‘person’: (i) individuality ‘Chapter’3 The person and his world (a) The person as class-unit (b) Group and individual (6) Individual and erowe (@) Individual and community (e) We-consciousness Paar IL ‘Tit EVERYDAY AND THE NON-EVERYDAY Chapter 4 The heterogeneity of everyday life (a) ‘The objectivation of ‘the whole man’ (b) Everyday and non-everyday thinking {e) Everyday life and social structure (a) Homogenization Chapter 5 From the everyday to the generic (a) Work (b) Morals (6) Religion vit LESBR Gan wuCONTENTS, (a) Politics and taw {e) Science, philosophy and the arts Parr Ill THEORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF Chapter 6 Objectivation initself and for itsel?” (a) Species-essential objectivations ‘in itself” (b) Species-cssential objectivations ‘for itself (c) The ‘in-and-for itself (a) “Being-for-us’ Chapter 7 Species-essential activity in itself [ERYDAY LIFE, Chapter 8 The common properties of species essential objectivations ‘in itself” (a) Repetition (b) The ‘rule-character’ and normativity (©) The sign system (@) Economy 3s (@) Situatediness Chapter 9 ‘The special properties of species-essential ‘objectivations ‘in tse (a) The world of objects (b) The world of custom (¢) Language ‘Chapter 10 The general schemes of conduct and knowledge in everyday life (a) Pragmatism (©) Probability (6) Imitation (@) Analogy (e) Over-generalization (f) The rough treatment ofthe singular ease Parr IV. Tits nOOTS OF THE NEEDS AND OBJECTTVATIONS MAKING {FOR SPECIES-ESSENTIALITY ‘FOR TISELE", AS GENERATED 18 EVERYDAY LIFE Chapter 11 Everyday knowledge (a) The content of everyday thought (b) The anthropological properties of everyday knowledge (©) What do we mean when we say we “know something”? (@) Types of theoretical attitude in everyday thinking Be us 7 us 19 120 320 123 134 135 136 138 143 ds 148 148 182 158 165 166 168 170 1p 195 178 183 185 185 195 203 211 CONTENTS. Chapter 12 Everyday contact ‘Ga) Everyday contact as the basis and micror of social relations: equality and inequality (b) Modalities of everyday contact (©) Orientative feelings in everyday contact (love and hate; attachments) (d) Everyday space {e) Everyday time (&) The collisions of everyday life (g) Everyday ‘contentment’: its components Chapter 13 The personality in everyday life (a) The relationship of personality tothe suructure of everyday life (b) Individuality os *being-for itself of the personality (@) The ‘being-for-us’ of everyday life Nores Inpex 216 216 220 231 236 256 262 266 20 m3