The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Author | : Nicholas John Spykman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas John Spykman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas J. Spykman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351473794 |
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 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.
Author | : Gregor Fitzi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351983555 |
The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmel’s sociological theory is still a subject of controversy. Is Simmel only a brilliant impressionist, a flâneur in the territories of modernity? Providing an illuminating and coherent presentation of Simmel’s sociological theory, The Challenge of Modernity seeks to demonstrate how Simmel contributed a structured sociological theory that fits the criteria of a ‘sociological grand theory’. Indeed, starting by the theory of modernity and its dimensions of social differentiation, monetarisation, culture reification and urbanisation; it reconstructs the architecture of Simmel’s sociological epistemology. Particular attention is dedicated to the theory of ‘qualitative societal differentiation’ that Simmel develops within his cultural sociology, with the late work being presented as a double contribution to the foundation of sociological anthropology and to the social ethics of complex societies. Presenting the entirety of Simmel’s manifold oeuvre from the viewpoint of its relevance for sociology, this comprehensive volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students who wish to understand Simmel’s relevance for socio-political thought and become acquainted with his contribution to sociological theory. It will also be of interest to the wider public who seek a critical assessment of our age in theoretical terms.
Author | : Natàlia Cantó Milà |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839403731 |
In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities that this approach offers to modern sociology and to a sociology of modernity. 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. Simmel's theory of value is depicted by Cantó Milà as including an intrinsically sociological aspect, since economic as well as moral, ethic and aesthetic values are conceived as resulting from human relations.
Author | : Georg Simmel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : 0029289203 |
Author | : David Frisby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415072755 |
Author | : H. Schermer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137276029 |
This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms – including fashion, the secret and money – as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today.
Author | : David Frisby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135018464 |
When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel’s social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. David Frisby provides a provocative introduction to aspects of Simmel’s social theory, seriously challenging many interpretations of his work, most notably the view that Simmel produced a formal sociology. 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 1992, 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.
Author | : David Frisby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780203760932 |
When "Sociological Impressionism" was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel s social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. David Frisby provides a provocative introduction to aspects of Simmel s social theory, seriously challenging many interpretations of his work, most notably the view that Simmel produced a "formal "sociology. 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 1992, 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.
Author | : Nicholas J. Spykman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |