The Drama of Everyday Life Author:Karl Scheibe In this ambitious book, Karl Scheibe aims to take psychology out of its experimentalist rut and bring it into contact with the complex lives that most people quietly live. With elegance and passion, Scheibe asks us to take note of the self-representation, performance, and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life. In doing so, h... more »e challenges our dispirited senses and awakens psychology to a new realm of dramatic possibility. "Karl Scheibe's entertaining book is a reaffirmation of one of the most powerful alternative ways of looking at human affairs: from the dramaturgical point of view … [Scheibe] describes and makes use of an image of the world as a dramatic performance … A fascinating and subtle book." —Rom Harr, Science "Everyday Life presents the 'dramaturgical approach' to psychology, one which identifies the writhing force which struggles to exalt our lives from mundane to magical … Scheibe calls for a form of 'quotidian psychology,' one which lowers the mask of traditional psychology, to reveal the faces of the players beneath and study the scripts of their commonplace lives in order to comprehend the drama life affords." —Karen A. Wyckoff, Forewordmagazine.com« less