1st Edition

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory An Introduction

By Ben Highmore Copyright 2002
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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.

Biography

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).