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

chapter |49 pages

Introduction(s)

part |48 pages

Simmel as postmodernist

chapter |28 pages

Simmel/Derrida

Doconstruction as symbolic play

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 |15 pages

Dimensions of conflict:

Georg Simmel on modern life

part |78 pages

Postmodern(ized) Simmel