Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Figuring the everyday; Arguments; Simmel: Fragments of everyday life; Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday; Benjamin's trash aesthetics; Mass-Observation: A science of everyday life; Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life; Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life; Postscript: Everyday life and the future of cultural studies; Bibliography; Index.
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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.
Everyday life and cultural theory.
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Civilization, Modern-- 20th century.
Culture-- Philosophy-- History-- 20th century.
Life.
Civilization, Modern.
Culture-- Philosophy.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Cultuursociologie.
Dagelijks leven.
Life.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.