Patrick Gamsby

Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre's (1901-1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvre's vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core elements of Lefebvre's latent theory of boredom. Themes of time (modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture (culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the experience of boredom. In analyzing the dialectic of boredom, Gamsby argues that Lefebvre's project of a critique of everyday life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and everyday life in the modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666900989
• Artikelnr.: 66005002

Autorenporträt

Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Birth of Boredom in Modernity
Chapter 2: The Absence of Style in Everyday Life
Chapter 3: The Incredible Dullness of Urbanism
Chapter 4: The Endless Yawn of the Suburbs
Chapter 5: The Emptiness of Consumption
Chapter 6: The Numbness of Work