ABSTRACT
In everyday life - if I may use Lukacs’s terminology - the whole man takes part; or, to put it another way, everyday activities are those in which the whole man takes shape.
In itself and without remainder, everyday life is objectification. That is to say, it is a process in which the person as subject ‘becomes externalized’ and in which externalized human capabilities proceed to live their own lives detached from their human source; wave-like, they undulate onwards in their own everyday life and in that of others in such a way that, if only at second-hand, they merge into and blend with the current of history, and thus take on objective value-content. For this reason, we can say that everyday life is the basis of the current of history. It is from the conflicts of everyday life that the greater conflicts of society in the mass are generated: answers have to be found to the questions thrown up in these conflicts, and no sooner are these settled than they reappear to re-shape and re-structure everyday life anew.
