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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.



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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

Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: 23/09/2022
      ISBN13: 9781666900972, 978-1666900972
      ISBN10: 1666900974

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents

      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

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