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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.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #102192 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
'Ben Highmore's engaging and readable study of how modern and contemporary theorists have defined and examined everyday life provides a lens for students and scholars alike through which to examine a central issue in cultural studies and social thought.' - Ivan Karp, Emory University

'Highmore has produced a valuable resource for teachers in all the disciplines that are concerned with the study of culture. He addresses the key thinkers who have defined the major variants of this crucial construct of cultural theory, and he has done so both accessibly and brilliantly.' - George Marcus, Rice University

From the Back Cover
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.
Individual chapters examine:
Modernity and everyday life
Georg Simmel and fragments of everyday life
Surrealism and the marvellous in the everyday
Walter Benjamins trash aesthetics
Mass-Observation and the science of everyday life
Henri Lefebvres dialectics of everyday life
Michel de Certeaus poetics of everyday life
Everyday life and the future of cultural studies

About the Author
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).