Books by Michael Gardiner

This book describes the recent Scottish independence referendum as the latest incarnation of a contest between two times on one hand, an ideally continuous time beyond determination underpinning financial sovereignty, on the other the interruptions to this ideal continuity inherent in human action.

This book charts the course of Scottish Critical Theory since the 1960s.

This book is a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction.

This book proposes that there exists a counter tradition within everyday life theorising. This has sought not merely to describe lived experience but to transform it by elevating our understanding to the status of a critical knowledge.

As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book fulfils the demand.

This book presents a provocative argument which suggests that cultural devolution preceded and indeed forced political change.