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Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction
By Ben Highmore
208 pages
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- Routledge
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Synopsis
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 cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Illustrations vi
- Preface and Acknowledgements vii
- Chapter 1 - Figuring the Everyday 1
- Chapter 2 - Arguments 17
- Chapter 3 - Simmel 33
- Chapter 4 - Surrealism 45
- Chapter 5 - Benjamin’s Trash Aesthetics 60
- Chapter 6 - Mass-Observation 75
- Chapter 7 - Henri Lefebvre’s Dialectics of Everyday Life 113
- Chapter 8 - Michel De Certeau’s Poetics of Everyday Life 145
- Chapter 9 - Postscript 174
- Bibliography 179
- Index 194