[PDF] Georg Simmel And The American Prospect eBook

Author : Gary D. Jaworski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1997-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143840784X

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This first book-length examination of the American reception of Georg Simmel, German philosopher and sociologist, offers a compelling new account of the transatlantic journey of Simmel's ideas. Jaworski draws on archival data, correspondence, interviews, and detailed textual analysis to explore the practical and strategic uses of Simmel's writings by a range of American social thinkers. These thinkers include the Chicago School figures Albion Small, Robert E. Park, and Everett C. Hughes; functionalist sociologists Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Lewis A. Coser, and Kaspar D. Naegele; and, more recently, Erving Goffman and postmodernists Deena and Michael Weinstein. Jaworski shows that the way in which Americans received Simmel was intricately related to efforts to transform American society. A recently discovered essay on Simmel by the emigre sociologist Albert Salomon, "Georg Simmel Reconsidered," and included here with an introduction and notes by Jaworski, provides added dimension to this important study.

Author : Gary D. Jaworski
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791431719

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This first book-length examination of the American reception of German philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel explores the practical and strategic uses of Simmel's ideas.

Author : Georg Simmel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134294395

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This revised edition of the first complete translation of the seminal work 'Die Philosophie des Geldes' by Georg Simmel includes a new preface by David Frisby.

Author : Olli Pyyhtinen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137006641

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While Georg Simmel is widely known, the impact of his work has been far from straightforward, with the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by later thinkers as complex and diverse as the ideas themselves. The Simmelian Legacy is a comprehensive study of the work of this influential sociologist and philosopher and its reception in the Anglophone, German, and French intellectual worlds. By returning to Simmel and his legacy, this text gives voice to a corpus of vast significance and great potential that has lived too much in the shadows. It examines how his relational mode of thought transforms the landscape of sociological problems to subvert conventional conceptions of Simmel's oeuvre as well as of sociology's history. It not only rediscovers key dimensions of Simmel's thought, but also explores its gradual and uneven re-emergence within subsequent scholarship. This is an engaging and lucid, intellectually illuminating and thoroughly accessible overview of the thought of one of sociology's key thinkers that will be essential reading for both scholars and students of sociology and social theory.

Author : Thomas Kemple
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509521127

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Georg Simmel, as well as being a major philosopher, is one of the founding figures of sociology whose work is comparable in importance to that of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. His writings on money, metropolises, and modernity have inspired generations of thinkers for over a century. In this book, leading expert Thomas Kemple clearly and accessibly introduces Simmel’s sociological and philosophical work, ranging from his masterpiece The Philosophy of Money to his famous essays ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ and ‘Fashion’ and beyond. The author situates his writings within his social and intellectual circles and analyses them in light of current debates surrounding urban sociology and social networks, phenomenology and metaphysics, cultural criticism and the study of everyday life. He brings Simmel’s most famous works into conversation with others that have received less attention, such as his writings on nature, art, religion, and sexuality. Through diagrams, everyday examples, and expositions of the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, and successors, this highly readable book captures the innovative spirit of Simmel’s unique method of thinking about cultural objects and his original style of writing about social life. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Simmel’s death, it will be the leading guide to Simmel’s thought for generations of students and scholars.

Author : Alex Law
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847876021

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This book's individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise the key topics within classical social theory. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes. Each entry provides: ' Clear definitions ' Lucid accounts of key issues ' Up-to-date suggestions for further reading ' Informative cross-referencing Relevant, focused and accessible this book will provide students with an...

Author : John Bratton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442606533

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Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition offers solid coverage of the classical triumvirate (Marx, Durkheim, and Weber), but also extends the canon strategically to include Simmel, four early female theorists, and the writings of Du Bois.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2003-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761941873

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The Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.

Author : Pierre Birnbaum
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804752930

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In Geography of Hope, French sociologist and historian Pierre Birnbaum examines the work of the some of the prominent Jewish social scientists of the past two centuries in order to analyze their range of responses to the tensions between the Enlightenment call for universalism and the reality of Jewish particularism.