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;

Summary: 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.

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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.

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.

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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)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ben Highmore is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England