Abstract

The concept of everyday life came into prominence over the last twenty years in the writings of a number of Marxist thinkers, all relatively independent of one another. It should be sufficient to mention here (in the historical order of the problem's emergence), such names as Lefèbvre, Lukacs, and Kosik. As is true of every addition to the conceptual apparatus of Marxism, it came as a reaction to the new problems that arose in the course of revolutionary praxis, even when some of these problems were not fully explicit. This new aspect of revolutionary praxis emerged in both the capitalist and socialist worlds.