| Crisis in the everyday speaks to the empty and mediated "I", separated and de-authenticated from itself. The "I" of the everyday is secondary to claims of "certainty", knowledge or "truth" which have been separated from the very subjectivity that created it. Moreover, social "reality" has become constructed as a generalized as fact of science, law, ethics, morality or nature. A much ceded praxis of being and doing and not just mindless doing is examined. Living has been far too reduced to a one-sided normativity that conforms to fractured feelings, thinking and experiences. Accordingly, "reality" remains grasped in the gaze of the unconcerned. A merely aesthetically refined connoisseur of experience and life "experiences" emerges.;This project moves beyond debunking mythic theories of objective participation that captures "objective realities" through a strategy of scientific distance. Rather, this social of engagement/distance in the hermeneutics of everyday attempts to grasp a more universal and holistic knowledge of identities and conditions. Conspicuously underdeveloped in modern social theory is the view of ethical and political existence that is not merely critical in its perspective, but also antagonistic to modern civil society and everyday life. This study provides a unique contribution to the socio-theoretical study of marginality from the viewpoint of the actor's cultural-historical and psychological existence. The complex of relationships among the experiences of the everyday, notably marginalization, alienation and, particularly, are related to the phenomena of withdrawal and engagement. |
