Georg Simmel's Concluding Thoughts : Worlds, Lives, Fragments / by David Beer.
Beer, David.
2019
H61-H61.62
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Title Georg Simmel's Concluding Thoughts : Worlds, Lives, Fragments / by David Beer.
Author Beer, David.
ISBN 9783030129910
3030129918
9783030129903 (print)
303012990X
9783030129927 (print)
3030129926
9783030129934 (print)
3030129934
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12991-0
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XVII, 197 pages 1 illustration) : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-12991-0 doi
Call Number H61-H61.62
Dewey Decimal Classification 300.1
Summary '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 powerful evocation of the detail, depth and range of Simmel's imaginative thinking and how it might inspire us in the present.' --Martin Hand, Queen's University, Canada 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).
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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.

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