Overview
- Provides a lively critical dialogue with Simmel’s lesser known later works
- Offers a conceptual toolkit for understanding life as both individual experience and as a deeply social phenomenon
- Demonstrates the continued relevance of Simmel’s works and puts his ideas to new use
- Emphasizes the openness and interdisciplinarity of Simmel’s work
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Pursuit of Inspiration
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“Simmel’s interests were wide-ranging. He could find inspiration in all sorts of subjects and topics, and Beer shows in beautiful detail how extraordinarily original Simmel’s world and work actually were. He brings to light the connections between thinking and writing, between form and content, between systematic arguments and passing remarks.” (Daniel Chernilo, Issue (1-4), European Journal of Social Theory, 2020)
“So far Georg Simmel’s late writings have received regrettable little attention, especially among sociologists. In this fascinating book, David Beer provides a most detailed reading and informative contextualization of Simmel’s final works and shows how Simmel turned to art for inspiration in developing his mature life-philosophy. Beer’s book also succeeds in stressing the continuing relevance of Simmel’s concluding thoughts.” (Olli Pyyhtinen, Professor of Sociology at Tampere University, Finland)
“This timely book offers a rich critical reflection on Simmel’s lesser known later works. It is a hugely enjoyable read: a lively yet serious engagement that reinvigorates those texts, and compels the reader to revisit Simmel’s oeuvre with new questions in mind. David Beer offers us a powerful evocation of the detail, depth and range of Simmel’s imaginative thinking and how it might inspire us in the present.” (Martin Hand, Queen's University, Canada)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts
Book Subtitle: Worlds, Lives, Fragments
Authors: David Beer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12991-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12990-3Published: 26 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12993-4Published: 28 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12991-0Published: 15 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Intellectual Studies, Political Sociology, Cultural Studies