Thompson, Patricia J. (Yelena V. Mayakovsky)
Fatal Abstractions

The Parallogics of Everyday Life.

Adopting the analytic lenses of the Hestian/Hermean Dual Systems Paradigm, this volume critiques paradigms that are baised in favor of the political at the expense of the familial. Thompson challenges conventional «ways of seeing» the private/public and expands the metaphor of the double helix of everyday life to include the parallogics of the dual domains of human action. She invites the reader to compare and contrast homeplace/marketplace activities from a dual systems - instead of a gender - perspective. She suggests that the domestic/civic aspects of everyday life be recognized as co-responsible options and offers a case study of the demise of a Hestian home economics department in the Hermean environment of higher education to illustrate her points. The book concludes with a Hestian feminist plea for domestic literacy based on a reappraisal of «hearth and home» in antiquity and modernity. Thompson suggests that a gender-equitable approach to the private/public demands of everyday life is an essential first step to achieving a «new humanism». XXIII,264 Seiten, gebunden (The Hestia Trilogy; Book 3/Peter Lang Verlag 2003) Mängelexemplar/near mint