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Daily Life

By: Frederic WillEdited By: Frederic Will

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The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.

Every day we eat, walk, make use of our skills, meet or talk with our friends, and fall into the inevitable habits that eventually become…
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Every day we eat, walk, make use of our skills, meet or talk with our friends, and fall into the inevitable habits that eventually become important elements in making us what we are. The thirteen highly personal essays composing this volume anatomize the elements of our lives, with stress on the cultures of the industrialized West. Sociologists, historians, writers, and the general reader will all emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions – daily life.

Frederic Will is a writer and retired Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts. He has taught in China, India, Russia, and at several major African universities, as well as throughout the USA. He has published widely and often, and is currently completing a ten-volume sequence, Inside Selfhood and History, which brings together issues of aesthetics and practical morality. At present, he is working on the morality of writing, which is constantly a choice among expressions. His lifetime opus constitutes a major contribution to the understanding and expression of the human sciences.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-1417-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-1417-1
  • Date of Publication: 2018-09-07

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-3501-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-3501-5
  • Date of Publication: 2019-06-07

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-2461-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-2461-3
  • Date of Publication: 2019-06-07
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  • BIC: JFC, J, HP
  • THEMA: JBCC, J, QD
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