The Simmelian Legacy
Published on 6. October 2017
Book
Hardback
XIV, 209 pages
978-1-137-00665-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
29 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-00665-3 (9781137006653)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-00664-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Olli Pyyhtinen is Associate Professor at the New Social Research programme at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of Simmel and 'the Social' (Palgrave, 2010), The Gift and Its Paradoxes (2014) and More-than-Human Sociology (Palgrave, 2015), and one of the authors of Disruptive Tourism and Its Untidy Guests (Palgrave, 2014). He has also edited the volume The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel (2016) together with Thomas Kemple. Currently Pyyhtinen is also the editor-in-chief of the Finnish national sociology journal Sosiologia.
Content
Chronology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Method and Key Principles.- 3. Sociology of Association.- 4. The Bustle of Modern Life: Fashion and the Modern Metropolis.- 5. Money.- 6. Studying Social Forms.- 7. Philosophy of Culture and Life.- 8. From Fame into Oblivion: Simmel's early Reception and Influence.- 9. Renewed Interest: Post-War Reception.- 10. Resonance with Contemporary Discussions and Debates.