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| | ICOS Seminars - Jean Lave |
 | | The first is an asocial construal of a strictly epistemological "everyday," the second a partially social view of everyday life in which different zones of social life have different epistemological characteristics, polarized between the ordinary and the special or privileged, and finally, a view of everyday life as the fabric of social existence. |
 | | The "everyday," whether as logical operator or as zone of social life limited to certain kinds of activities by certain kinds of persons, preserves a dualism between the ordinary and the exceptional, however these may be conceived. |
 | | The problem of life is to accumulate (or articulate) knowledge; coming to know is a process of distancing oneself from the thing to be learned, via contemplation, or as a matter of representation, while everyday life is on the whole viewed as entrapping and limiting. |
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