ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |49 pages
Introduction(s)
part |48 pages
Simmel as postmodernist
chapter |18 pages
Georg Simmel: sociological f l â n e u r bricoleur
part |47 pages
Postmodern Simmel
chapter |14 pages
Simmel and the dialectic of the double boundary
The case of ‘the metropolis and mental life'
chapter |16 pages
Simmel and the theory of postmodern society
part |78 pages
Postmodern(ized) Simmel