Description
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 at 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.
About the Author
Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Book Information
ISBN 9781666900972
Author Patrick Gamsby
Format Hardback
Page Count 286
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 617g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 158mm * 28mm
