Nicholas J. Spykman

The Social Theory of Georg Simmel (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary sociology increasingly seems to be adopting a perspective similar to that on which Georg Simmel's analysis and interpretations rested. To a significant degree, therefore, sociologists continue to turn to Simmel for a basic understanding of the forms and processes of social life. Nicholas Spykman's The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, originally published in 1925, was the first comprehensive account of Simmel's ideas. It remains a most valuable summary of the major elements of his thought.

Spykman wrote this study for a specific purpose: to indicate Simmel's conception of the relations between different fields of theoretic inquiry into socio-historical actuality; to make Simmel's contributions to the methodology of the social sciences understood; and to illustrate Simmel's conception of sociology as a science. He shows that Simmel was primarily a social philosopher interested in a functional understanding of socio-historical realities, art and economic values, morals and aesthetics, religion, and the function of money. Spykman identifies three major phases in the development of Simmel's thought: the first is primarily occupied with methodology and the presuppositions of the social sciences; during the second he wrote several essays containing philosophic interpretations of modern civilization; and the third culminated in his metaphysics of culture.

The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, graced with a new introduction by David Frisby, one of the foremost contemporary Simmel experts, is an outstandingly organized, coherent presentation of the complex and subtle ideas of one of the intellectual giants of modern sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 341
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351473804
• Artikelnr.: 49377894

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Spykman

Inhaltsangabe

Book I: Social Philosophy
Introduction
I: The Concept of Society
II: Sociology
III: Sociology as Distinct From the Social Sciences and Social Psychology
IV: Sociology as Distinct from Social Philosophy
V: Sociology as Distinct From the Philosophy Of History and the Search for Historical Laws
VI: The Method and Technique of Formal Sociology
VII: The Prerequisites of Socialization
Summary
BOOK II: Social Science
Introduction
I: Submission
II: Opposition
III: The Numerical Relations of Social Forms
IV: The Spatial Relations of Social Forms
V: Social Conservation
VI: Social Differentiation
VII: The Individual and the Group
Summary
BOOK III: Social Philosophy
Introduction
I: Money and Individual Liberty
II: Money and the Style of Modern Life
Summary
Conclusion
Conclusion