Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts

Worlds, Lives, Fragments

David Beer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 197 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-12993-4 (ISBN)

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This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding life as both an individual experience and as a deeply social phenomenon. Taking the reader through artistic and musical forms of inspiration, to the problems of culture and on to the conceptual understanding of lived experience, the book illuminates the richness of Simmel's ideas and thinking. This sophisticated dialogue with Simmel's lesser known later works will provide fresh insights for students and scholars of cultural and social theory and pave the way for a reinvigorated engagement with his ideas.

David Beer is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. His previous books include The Data Gaze (2018), Metric Power (2016) and Punk Sociology (2014).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Contextualising Simmel's Thinking.- Part I: The Pursuit of Inspiration.- Chapter 2. Lowering a Plumb Line.- Chapter 3. The Emerging Figure.- Part II: The View of Life.- Chapter 4. Life as Transcendence.- Chapter 5. The Turn Toward Ideas.- Chapter 6. Death and Immortality.- Chapter 7. The Law of the Individual.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Working with and Using Simmel's Ideas.

"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)

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2020
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 197 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Biography • David Frisby • flÃ¢neur • Flâneur • Georg Simmel • Individuation • Metaphysics • Social Life • Social Media • Sociation • sociological bricoleur • sociological imagination • sociological impressionism • the social world • the turn towards ideas • The View of Life • transcendence
ISBN-10	3-030-12993-4 / 3030129934
ISBN-13	978-3-030-12993-4 / 9783030129934
Zustand	Neuware