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Georg Simmel
Outlines the cultural and historical context in which Simmel worked; reviews Simmel's most important writings; and examines his legacy to sociology by illuminating his links with Weber's theories and his relationship with Marxism.
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Contemporary sociology increasingly seems to be adopting a perspective similar to that on which Georg Simmel's analysis and interpretations rested. To a significant degree, therefore, sociologists continue to turn to Simmel for a basic understanding of the forms and processes of social life. Nicholas Spykman's The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, originally published in 1925, 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 co...
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today. Fascinated by the relationship between culture, society, and economic life, Simmel took an interest in myriad phenomena of aesthetics and the arts. A friend of writers and artists such as Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Stefan George, he wrote dozens of pieces engaging with topics such as the work of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, Japanese art, natura...
Georg Simmel
This collection brings together the essential secondary literature on Simmel. Selected and edited by David Frisby - a scholar who has perhaps done more than anyone to rehabilitate Simmel's reputation. Both a consise and comprehensive work.
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
This work by the late Nicholas Spykman offers the reader a comprehensive synopsis of both Simmel's social theory and the essentials of his formal sociology. Drawing on passages from numerous works by Simmel, the author sets out Simmel's conception of the relationship between the different fields of theoretic inquiry into socio-historical actuality; explains his major contribution to the methodology of the social sciences; and finally illustrates Simmel's conception of sociology as a science. The book also contains summaries of the as yet untranslated chapters of Simmel's work, Sociologie (1908).
Simmel on Culture
This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with his basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of culture.
