Everyday life and cultural theory : an introduction / Ben Highmore.

Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Highmore, Ben, 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Figuring the everyday; Arguments; Simmel: Fragments of everyday life; Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday; Benjamin's trash aesthetics; Mass-Observation: A science of everyday life; Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life; Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life; Postscript: Everyday life and the future of cultural studies; Bibliography; Index.