The Routledge international handbook of Simmel studies / [edited by] Gregor Fitzi.

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New York : Routledge, 2020.
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"The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety and creativity of contemporary international research on Georg Simmel's work. Starting with the established role of Simmel as a classical author of sociology and including the growing interest in his work in the domain of philosophy, this volume explores the research on Simmel in several further disciplines including art, social aesthetics, literature, theatre, essayism and critical theory, as well as in the debates on cosmopolitanism, economic pathologies of life, freedom, modernity, religion, and nationalism. Bringing together contributions from leading specialists in research on Simmel, the book is thematically arranged in order to highlight the relevance of his oeuvre for different fields of recent research, with a further section tracing the most important paths that Simmel's reception has taken in the world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, and to sociologists, philosophers and social theorists in particular, with interest in Simmel's thought"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • General introduction
  • PART I: Biography
  • 1. Simmel's life: an unexplored continent
  • PART II: Sociology
  • 2. Simmel's resonance with contemporary sociological debates
  • 3. Relations, forms, and the representation of the social life: Georg Simmel and the challenge of relational sociology as Lebenssoziologie
  • 4. Boundaries as relations: Georg Simmel's relational theory of boundaries
  • 5. The actuality of a sociological research programme
  • PART III: Philosophy
  • 6. Relativism: a theoretical and practical philosophical programme
  • 7. The art of complicating things
  • 8. Georg Simmel, Hans Blumenberg, and philosophical anthropology
  • 9. Simmel's 'late life metaphysics'
  • PART IV: Art and aesthetics
  • 10. Art and knowledge in Simmel's thought and writing style
  • 11. Social aesthetics
  • 12. Philosophy of art
  • 13. Framing, painting, seeing: Simmel's Rembrandt and the sense of modernity
  • PART V: Literature and theatre
  • 14. Literary practice and immanent literary theory
  • 15. The Goethean heritage in Simmel's work
  • 16. Simmel: the actor and his roles
  • PART VI: Essayism and critical theory
  • 17. Georg Simmel and the 'newspaper sociology' of the 1920s and 1930s
  • 18. Georg Simmel and critical theory
  • PART VII: Topics of debate
  • 19. Freedom: an open debate
  • 20. Georg Simmel's theory of religion
  • 21. Georg Simmel: war, nation, and Europe
  • 22. Simmel's cosmopolitanism
  • 23. Economic pathologies of life
  • PART VIII: Lines of reception
  • 24. Simmel's American legacy revisited
  • 25. Goffman, Schutz, and the 'secret of the other': on the American sociological reception of Simmel's 'das Geheimnis des Anderen'
  • 26. Traces of Simmel in Latin America: modernity, nation, and memory.
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-000-19567-8
  • 0-429-29750-5
  • 1-000-19571-6
OCLC
1157583305
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  • 10.4324/9780429297502
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