General Information

Author/Creator

Highmore, Ben, 1961-

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Physical Description

viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

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--publisher

Subjects

Subject

Life.

Civilization, Modern > 20th century.

Culture > Philosophy > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Ben Highmore.

ISBN

0415223024

0415223032

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	306 HIG		OSA Repository	-

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