Ben Highmore

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from Georg Simmel's cultural sociology, through the Mass-Observation project of the thirties to theorists such as Michel Curteau.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415223034
• ISBN-10: 0415223032
• Artikelnr.: 22115988

Autorenporträt

Ben Highmore is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is editor of The Everyday Life Reader (forthcoming, Routledge 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. 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 Dialects of Everyday Life 8. Michel de
Certeau's Poetics of Everyday Life 9. Psotscript: Everyday Life and the
Future of Cultural Studies Bibliography. Index.