"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a[...]

Published in 1918, "The View of Life" is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed 'the brightest man in Europe by George Santayana, Simmel addressed a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, [...]

'I have lost interest ...in all that I have written prior to The Philosophy of Money. This one is really my book, the others appear to me colourless and seem as if they could have been written by anyone else.' - Georg Simmel to Heinrich Rickert (1904) In The Philosophy of Money, Simmel provides us [...]

A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money, published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reader[...]

Analyzing Georg Simmel's theory of domination and subordination as presented in his Soziologie (1908), Adele Bianco focuses on concrete case studies to derive an interpretation of globalization processes. Within sociology, domination and subordination are reciprocal. They represent constitutive mode[...]

This new volume in the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Georg Simmel. It closely examines the writings and ideas of Simmel that introduced a new way of looking at culture and society and helped establish sociology's place among the acad[...]

As the founder of the humanist version of sociology, Georg Simmel sent powerful messages about the discipline. His key ideas--that reality is socially constructed, changes over time, and rarely is as it appears--are critically re-examined with an eye toward drawing lessons for contemporary scholars [...]

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern der Jahrhundertwende und war Mitbegrunder der Soziologie in Deutschland. Im angelsachsischen Pragmatismus hat sein Werk ebenso Spuren hinterlassen wie in einer kritischen und engagierten Sozialphilosophie neueren Datums. In den letzten Jahr[...]