The Everyday Life Reader brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life, setting theories in their social and historical context, and each themed section opens with an essay introducing the debates. Sections include: Situating the Everyday Everyday Life and 'National Culture' Ethnography Near and Far Reclamation Work Everyday Things Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Fernand Braudel, Michel de Certeau, Steven Connor, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Luce Giard, Jean-Luc Godard, Erving Gof
