Georg Simmel's Concluding Thoughts Worlds, Lives, Fragments /

• Main Author: Beer, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Intellectual life-History.; Political sociology.; Cultural studies.; Social Theory.; Cultural Theory.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Intellectual Studies.; Political Sociology.; Cultural Studies.

'This timely book offers a rich critical reflection on Simmel's lesser known later works. It is a hugely enjoyable read: a lively yet serious engagement that reinvigorates those texts, and compels the reader to revisit Simmel's oeuvre with new questions in mind. David Beer offers us a...

Table of Contents:

• 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.