Simmel ebook

Nicholas Spykman's The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, originally published in , was the first comprehensive account of Simmel's ideas. It remains a most valuable summary of the major elements of his thought. Spykman wrote this study for a specific purpose: to indicate Simmel's conception of the relations between different fields of theoretic inquiry into socio-historical actuality; to make Simmel's contributions to the methodology of the social sciences understood; and to illustrate Simmel's conception of sociology as a science.

He shows that Simmel was primarily a social philosopher interested in a functional understanding of socio-historical realities, art and economic values, morals and aesthetics, religion, and the function of money.

Spykman identifies three major phases in the development of Simmel's thought: the first is primarily occupied with methodology and the presuppositions of the social sciences; during the second he wrote several essays containing philosophic interpretations of modern civilization; and the third culminated in his metaphysics of culture. The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, graced with a new introduction by David Frisby, one of the foremost contemporary Simmel experts, is an outstandingly organized, coherent presentation of the complex and subtle ideas of one of the intellectual giants of modern sociology.

A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. By drawing on many little-known essays and pieces by Simmel and his contemporaries, the book locates him within the social and intellectual milieu in which he was working.

This is a reissue of the second edition, published in , which includes a new afterword confronting critical responses to the first edition. This is an important work, which will be of interest to students of sociology and social philosophy in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Horst J. The book focuses on the key intellectual concerns of Simmel, including the process of individualization, religion, private and family life, cities, and modernization.

It is ideal for use as a self-contained volume or in conjunction with other sociological theory books. She does so by focusing on the theory of value Simmel developed in his »The Philosophy of Money«, delivering an alternative reading of this book that views its theory of value as its main axial point.

Yet, the standing of Simmel's sociological theory is still a subject of controversy. Mike Featherstone Editor ,. David Frisby Editor. Michael Weinstein Translator ,. Deena Weinstein Translator ,. Helmut Loiskandl Translator. Arto Noro Editor, Foreword ,. Tiina Huuhtanen Translator. Alan Scott Editor ,. Helmet Staubmann. Georg Simmel Autor ,. Norbert Elias ,. Massimo Cacciari. Angela Ackermann Pilari. Otthein Rammstedt. Guy Oakes Translator. Joachin Ritter ,.

John A. Andrews Translator ,. Donald Nathan Levine Translator ,. Daniel Silver Introduction. Mathias Andlau Translator. Serge Paugam ,.

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