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

Main entry:

Highmore, Ben, 1961-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Description:

viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
1. Figuring the everyday -- 2. Arguments -- 3. Simmel: Fragments of everyday life -- 4. Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday -- 5. Benjamin's trash aesthetics -- 6. Mass-Observation: A science of everyday life -- 7. Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life -- 8. Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life -- 9. Postscript: Everyday life and the future of cultural studies.

Summary:

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the Mass Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists. Individual chapters examine: theories of the everyday; fragments of everyday life, Surrealism: the marvelous in the everyday; Walter Benjamin's Trash Aesthetics; mass Observation: the science of everyday life; Henri Lefebvre's Dialectics of Everyday Life; Michel de Certeau's Poetics of Everyday Life; and everyday life and the future of cultural studies.

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2002.
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0415223024 (hbk.)
9780415223027 (hbk.)
0415223032 (pbk.)
9780415223034 (pbk.)
9780203464229
0203464222

Subject:

Life.
Civilization, Modern 20th century.
Culture Philosophy History 20th century.
Civilisation 20e siècle.
Civilization, Modern.
Culture Philosophy.
Dagelijks leven.
Cultuursociologie.
Cultuurfilosofie.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225364
Call No.: BD431 .H5 2002
Status: Available

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