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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.

Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving....

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.

'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher. It discusses how Simmel's work is relevant, interesting and significant for advancing contemporary discussions and debates. Compared to the volumes of works on other sociological giants like Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber, the Anglophone secondary literature on Simmel has remained relatively scarce until recently.

The book addresses general questions on 'social life in process' that characterize the whole of Simmel's work and also includes chapters...