Everyday life and cultural theory : an introduction / Ben Highmore.
By: Highmore, Ben.
Material type: BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415223032 (pbk.); 0415223024; 9780415223034.Subject(s): Life | Civilization, Modern -- 20th century | Culture -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 306Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 15/02/2024 | 00194791 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Illustrations (p. vi)
- Preface and acknowledgements (p. vii)
- 1. Figuring the everyday (p. 1)
- 2. Arguments (p. 17)
- 3. Simmel: Fragments of everyday life (p. 33)
- 4. Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday (p. 45)
- 5. Benjamin's trash aesthetics (p. 60)
- 6. Mass-Observation: A science of everyday life (p. 75)
- 7. Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life (p. 113)
- 8. Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life (p. 145)
- 9. Postscript: Everday life and the future of cultural studies (p. 174)
- Bibliography (p. 179)
- Index (p. 194)