"Nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd," concluded German sociologist Georg Simmel after a lifetime of research. Following two years of lockdowns and social distancing ...

Some of the classical sources that support this mediated position are traced to Alexander Vvedenskij's and Georg Simmel's critiques of Kant's ethics, Hermann Cohen's philosophy of fellowship, and ...

Davison-Vecchione, Daniel 2024. The secret and The Circle: Georg Simmel’s social theory and Dave Eggers’ dystopian fiction. The Sociological Review, ...

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Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. In exploring their individual works written during and after the War, the author reveals how philosophical concepts and new forms of thinking were forged in response to ...

We need to develop and share techniques so people can self-manage their phone use. An essay from 1903 by Georg Simmel called The Metropolis and Mental Life. In 1903, when Simmel observed that more and ...

These are seminal contributions by some of the founders of classical German sociology and social theory, including Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies, Ernst Troeltsch, and Werner Sombart. A ...

Concentrating on nine German thinkers - among them Georg Simmel, Karl Mannheim, and Max Weber - Harrington (sociology, Univ. of Leeds, UK) skillfully demonstrates that a sophisticated, European ...

Terrier, Jean 2012. Personnalité individuelle et personnalité collective selon Émile Durkheim et Georg Simmel. Sociologie et sociétés, Vol. 44, Issue. 2, p. 235. Kostantaras, Dean 2017. Perfecting the ...

Anthony Fothergill juxtaposes a story by Joseph Conrad and the writings of Georg Simmel to expose the performative aspects of gifts and to illuminate how narratives themselves may participate in a ...

To say that money is a claim on society is not original, Dodd reminds us with references to Georg Simmel and others. But he is right to say it again. The traditional view still traces the origins of ...

Final take-home examination. Mustafa Emirbayer, "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology." Georg Simmel, Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms (chs. 3, 6; 9; 10; 18; 20). Georg Simmel, Conflict ...