Conflict and the Web Group Affil

Politics & Social Sciences

SIMMEL, GEORG

Social Sciences

MacMillan Publishing Company

CONFLICT &amp; THE WEB OF GROUP-AFFILIATIONS, DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, GEORG SIMMEL.

Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Free Press

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Dust jacket and boards are worn and scuffed; jacket covered with mylar.

The Problems of the Philosophy of History: An Epistemological Essay

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Text: English, German (translation)

Georg Simmel: Sociologist and European (Making of Sociology) (English and German Edition)

Lawrence, Professor Peter A

Sociology

Thomas Nelson Publishers

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career—the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today. Fascinated by the relationship between culture, society, and economic life, Simmel took an interest in myriad phenomena of aesthetics and the arts. A friend of writers and artists such as Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Stefan George, he wrote dozens of pieces engaging with topics such as the work of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, Japanese art, naturalism and symbolism, Goethe, “art for art’s sake”, art exhibitions, and the aesthetics of the picture frame. This is the first collection to bring together Simmel’s finest writing on art and aesthetics, and many of the items appear in English in this volume for the first time. The more than forty essays show the protean breadth of Simmel’s reflections, covering landscape painting, portraiture, sculpture, poetry, theater, form, style, and representation. An extensive introduction by Austin Harrington gives an overview of Simmel’s themes and elucidates the significance of his work for the many theorists who would be inspired by his ideas. Something of an outsider to the formal academic world of his day, Simmel wrote creatively with the flair of an essayist. This expansive collection of translations preserves the narrative ease of Simmel’s prose and will be a vital source for readers with an interest in Simmel’s trailblazing ideas in modern European philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a new field for discovery and proceeded to explore a world of novel topics in works that have guided and anticipated the thinking of generations of sociologists. Such distinctive concepts of contemporary sociology as social distance, marginality, urbanism as a way of life, role-playing, social behavior as exchange, conflict as an integrating process, dyadic encounter, circular interaction, reference groups as perspectives, and sociological ambivalence embody ideas which Simmel adumbrated more than six decades ago."—Donald N. Levine Half of the material included in this edition of Simmel's writings represents new translations. This includes Simmel's important, lengthy, and previously untranslated "Group Expansion and Development of Individuality," as well as three selections from his most neglected work, Philosophy of Money; in addition, the introduction to Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie, chapter one of the Lebensanschauung, and three essays are translated for the first time.

Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms (Heritage of Sociology Series)

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career―the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays, with Journal Aphorisms

Levine, Donald N. & Silver, Daniel (introduction)

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Conflict and the Web Group Affil

Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations

The Problems of the Philosophy of History: An Epistemological Essay

Georg Simmel: Sociologist and European (Making of Sociology) (English and German Edition)

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms (Heritage of Sociology Series)

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays, with Journal Aphorisms