Georg Simmel and the disciplinary imaginary /

An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance of phenomena-including money, gender, urban lif...

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Main Author: Goodstein, Elizabeth S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Simmel's modernity
  • Simmel as classic : representation and the rhetoric of disciplinarity
  • Memory/legacy : Georg Simmel as (mostly) forgotten founding father
  • Style as substance : Simmel's modernism and the disciplinary imaginary
  • Performing relativity : money and modernist philosophy
  • Disciplining the philosophy of money
  • Thinking liminality, rethinking disciplinarity
  • The stranger and the sociological imagination
  • Epilogue : Georg Simmel as modernist philosopher.