Simmel and Since: Essays on Georg Simmel's Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415609012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 226 str.

David Frisby;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This study is written by one of the world's leading experts on Simmel, and provides a fascinating set of insights into a thinker who is fast becoming recognized as the sociologist of modernity. It examines the relevance of his work in relation to contemporary debates on culture, aesthetics and modernity.

Spis treści

Part I Societies and individuals  1. The study of society  2. Georg Simmel and social psychology  Part II Into modernity  3. German sociologists and modernity  4. Simmel and the study of modernity  5. Some economic aspects of The Philosophy of Money  6. Social space, the city and the metropolis  7. Leisure and modernity  8. The aesthetics of modern life  Part III Since Simmel  9. Modernity, postmodernity and things