Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology

Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology
Springer Netherlands (1990)
Robert S. Cohen (Boston University) ed.
Format PDF 15.5 MB
Pages 382

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MICHAEL KAERN / Introduction One: Simmel as a Puzzling Figure 1

BERNARD S. PHILLIPS / Introduction Two: Simmel as a Puzzling

Figure for Contemporary Sociology 9

HEINZ-JURGEN DAHME / On the Current Rediscovery of

Georg SimmeI's Sociology - A European Point of View 13

DAVID P. FRISBY/Georg SimmeI's Concept of Society 39

DAVID P. FRISBY / Georg Simmel and the Study of Modernity 57

MICHAEL KAERN / The World as Human Construction 75

KLAUS CHRISTIAN KOHNKE / Four Concepts of Social Science

at Berlin University: Dilthey, Lazarus, SchmoIIer and Simmel 99

GARY DEAN JAWORSKI / SimmeI's Contribution to Parsons' Action Theory and its Fate 109

PAOLOJEDLOWSKI / Simmel on Memory 131

FRANK J. LECHNER / Social Differentiation and Modernity: On SimmeI's Macrosociology 155

STJEPAN G. MESTROVIC / SimmeI's Sociology in Relation to Schopenhauer's Philosophy 181

O. K. MOORE / Simmel on the Ratio of Subjective Values to Objective Cultural Possibilities 199

BIRGITT A NEDELMANN / On the Concept of "Erleben" III Georg Simmel's Sociology 225

BIRGITT A NEDELMANN / Georg Simmel as an Analyst of Autonomous Dynamics:

The Merry-Go-Round of Fashion 243

BERNARD S. PHILLIPS / Simmel, Individuality, and Fundamental Change 259

LA WRENCE A. SCAFF / Georg Simmers Theory of Culture 283

JEFFREY A. SHAD, JR. / The Groundwork of Simmers New "Storey" Beneath Historical Materialism 297

SUZANNE VROMEN / Georg Simmel and the Cultural Dilemma of Women 319

DEENA WEINSTEIN and MICHAEL A. WEINSTEIN / Dimensions of Conflict:

Georg Simmel on Modem Life 341

ANNA WESSELY / Simmers Influence on Lukacs's Conception of the Sociology of Art 357

ANNA WESSELY / Simmers Metaphysics 375

INDEX OF NAMES 385