The Simmelian Legacy

ISBN-13: 9781137006660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 209 str.

Olli Pyyhtinen

Opis

Comprehensive yet concise, this is an excellent introduction to the key themes of Georg Simmel's thought for students and scholars. Assessing his works and showing how his ideas have been applied across a range of subjects and topics in the contemporary social sciences, the text makes the wider context of Simmel's oeuvre accessible to all.

Spis treści

Chronology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Method and Key Principles.- 3. Sociology of Association.- 4. The Bustle of Modern Life: Fashion and the Modern Metropolis.- 5. Money.- 6. Studying Social Forms.- 7. Philosophy of Culture and Life.- 8. From Fame into Oblivion: Simmel's early Reception and Influence.- 9. Renewed Interest: Post-War Reception.- 10. Resonance with Contemporary Discussions and Debates.

O autorze

Olli Pyyhtinen is Associate Professor at the New Social Research programme at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and ‘the Social’ (Palgrave, 2010), The Gift and Its Paradoxes (2014) and More-than-Human Sociology (Palgrave, 2015), and one of the authors of Disruptive Tourism and Its Untidy Guests (Palgrave, 2014). He has also edited the volume The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel (2016) together with Thomas Kemple. Currently Pyyhtinen is also the editor-in-chief of the Finnish national sociology journal Sosiologia. 

Blurb

The Simmelian Legacy is a comprehensive study of the work of sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858–1918) and its reception in the Anglophone, German, and French intellectual worlds. By returning to Simmel and rediscovering his legacy, the book gives voice to a corpus of vast significance and great potential that nevertheless has lived too much in the shadows. Author Olli Pyyhtinen argues that Simmel’s most significant contribution to sociology consists above all of his relational mode of thought. By examining how that thought transforms the landscape of sociological problems, The Simmelian Legacy subverts conventional conceptions of both Simmel’s oeuvre and sociology’s history. The book not only rediscovers key dimensions of Simmel’s thought and neglected lines of flight, but also explores its gradual and uneven re-emergence within subsequent scholarship. The Simmelian Legacy will appeal to both students and scholars of varying degrees of familiarity with Simmel, and the reader will take away an abundance of insights and provocative ideas.