Overview: Original description of pragmatic everyday life through intrinsic/imposed relevances, hyper-mastery, individual anxiety, social pathology, and emancipation via non-pragmatic provinces of meaning.First.This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tensions non-pragmatic provinces can relieve. But individuals and groups also inevitably resort
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